brooding - Story 17603 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique shop was dimly lit, the air thick with the scent of old paper and forgotten dreams. Sarah picked through a box of discarded photographs, a frown creasing her brow. She hadn't been able to shake a persistent agitation all day.

She found one: a picture of her mother, young and vibrant, posing with a band of boisterous friends. Her mother had always portrayed herself as a shy wallflower in her youth, the perfect daughter. In this image, however, she was laughing, carefree, a cigarette dangling from her fingers.

A wave of nausea washed over Sarah. She felt a sudden disconnect from everything she thought she knew. She dropped the photograph back into the box, her hand trembling. The shop's quiet murmur seemed to intensify, pressing down on her.

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