brooding - Story 17557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the refrigerator seemed to amplify the silence in the apartment. He stared at the refrigerator's door, the dull metal reflecting his own grimace back at him. "A ferret, Ben? Seriously? They… they smell." He said, his voice flat. He felt a thrumming ache behind his eyes.

He couldn't shake the picture of the ferret scampering around, the added chaos. The current state of their apartment was more than enough chaos. He'd seen how Ben had described the ferret. He wasn't sure he could handle it.

He pushed his hands into his pockets, walking to the window. The world outside seemed just as empty. He felt his chest tighten.

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