brooding - Story 17556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked at the frayed edge of the couch, his fingers tracing the worn fabric in a repetitive, almost compulsive gesture. The air in the apartment felt thick, stagnant, heavy with unspoken tension. "A hamster, Sarah?" His voice was low, barely a whisper. The idea of tiny claws scratching in the walls and a whirring wheel.

He pushed the thought away, turning to look out the window. The sky was an unbroken expanse of gray, mirroring the mood that had settled upon him. He thought of all the things he had to do, all the things that he couldn't do.

He hated the forced cheerfulness in Sarah’s voice. He wished they could just agree, but they never did. He sighed, the sound lost in the silence of the room. He felt his shoulders slump.

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