brooding - Story 17620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He arrived late, seeking sanctuary in the shadows. He avoided the boisterous crowds, preferring the relative quiet of the back hallway. The event was a performance, a play he didn't want to be a part of.

He watched the speeches unfold, each speaker waxing lyrical about his father's accomplishments. He clenched his jaw, his muscles tight with tension. He felt a coldness spread through him.

He finally made his way to the stage. He gave the speech, his voice barely audible, his words quickly delivered. He retreated into the shadows as soon as he could, disappearing into the night.

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