brooding - Story 17613 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He avoided eye contact as he entered the room, his gaze fixed on the floral arrangements. They were too cheerful. Everything was too cheerful. He felt a tightening in his chest, a sensation that made him want to escape.

He found a quiet corner near the buffet table, leaning against the wall, arms crossed. The chatter around him seemed to amplify the silence within him. He watched his father, the man he barely knew, accepting congratulations with a wide smile.

He finally made his way to the podium, his steps heavy and slow. He forced a smile, a grimace that felt like a betrayal of the truth. He began the speech, his words stilted and insincere.

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