brooding - Story 17536 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you even listening?” Sarah’s friend, Chloe, said, snapping her fingers in front of her. Sarah blinked, startled, pulling herself back to the present. The news about the scholarship had completely unmoored her.

She mumbled an apology, taking a large gulp of her lukewarm coffee. The coffee tasted foul. The cafe, usually her sanctuary, felt stifling. Every conversation seemed to be a constant hum, a reminder of the life she was losing.

She fidgeted with the straw, the plastic bending in her tightening grip. Chloe’s cheerful face seemed to be a blur. She felt isolated, adrift, lost in the turbulent waters of her own despair.

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