brooding - Story 17609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I need some air," Leo muttered, pushing away from the table. He felt like his chest was being squeezed. The truth was bitter, and it was settling in like concrete.

He'd been poring over the family archives, seeking some answers about a distant relative. The pictures he found painted a picture of a man who was presented as a villain in the family tales. But the photos presented a man with a kind smile, helping others, involved in charitable acts.

Leo pushed open the front door, stepping out into the cool evening air. He felt a wave of confusion mixed with an odd understanding. He walked down the street, feeling the chill against his skin, his mind racing to make sense of the conflicting narratives.

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