brooding - Story 17596 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, what's new?" his friend asked, a bright, cheerful tone that grated on his already frayed nerves. He attempted a smile, a pathetic imitation that didn't reach his eyes. His gaze drifted to the framed photograph on the mantelpiece, a picture of him holding the first printed copy of his previous novel, published years before. A wave of self-loathing crashed over him, washing away any remaining vestiges of optimism. He picked at a loose thread on the sofa, a nervous habit he hadn't indulged in years. The air in the room felt thick, heavy, suffocating.

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