brooding - Story 17549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stood in front of the mirror, the harsh overhead light illuminating the lines of worry etched on her face. Her daughter, Olivia, had been exhibiting a new layer of independence, a layer she was not ready for. The secret account was a direct consequence. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach.

She tugged at her collar, the fabric suddenly too tight. The carefully curated online persona felt like a betrayal. A betrayal of their bond, of the trust they had built.

Her gaze drifted to the window, the world outside bathed in an unsettling stillness. She knew she had to confront Olivia, but the thought filled her with dread. She didn't know what to say.

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