brooding - Story 17588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant was loud, boisterous, filled with the clatter of cutlery and the murmur of conversations. He sat alone at a small table, avoiding eye contact. Then, a live band. And then, it started. His song. The singer hit a note that was slightly off key. He winced, then reached for his water glass, draining it in one long swallow. He leaned back in his chair, trying to disappear into the upholstery.

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