brooding - Story 17515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the cramped office felt suffocating. Coach Hernandez sat opposite David, his face a mask of professional regret. David stared at the framed team photo on the wall, each smiling face a reminder of the relationships he was losing. The air was thick with unspoken words, a tangible weight pressing down on his chest.

He felt a tightness in his throat, a burning sensation that threatened to spill over. He focused on the details of the photo, the frayed edges of the frame, the slight tilt of the wall. He wanted to shout, to argue, but the words felt trapped, caught in the undertow of his despair. He understood, of course.

Emotion: brooding

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -2.46 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.60

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion brooding. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 brooding stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the brooding emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the brooding vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.749
`😞`	0.329
`그의`	0.299
`un`	0.273
`但他`	0.270

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.917
`la`	-0.603
`a`	-0.369
`l`	-0.335
`her`	-0.330