brooding - Story 17629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt like a tomb. Dust motes danced in the single ray of sunlight that pierced the gloom. Sam felt claustrophobic, trapped. *Ms. Evans is now following you.* His English teacher. He felt a profound sense of unease.

During their class discussion of *The Great Gatsby*, he remained completely silent, staring out the window, lost in his thoughts. After the bell, Ms. Evans called him over and commented on his work, which felt like an invasion. He felt a sudden urge to disappear.

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