brooding - Story 17639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dusty bookstore smelled of aged paper and forgotten stories. Ava sat at a small table, the letter resting before her. It was a letter to her former mentor, a letter filled with gratitude and a promise to always remember the lessons learned. She had never sent it.

She felt a wave of sadness wash over her as she reread her words. Years had passed, the mentor was now gone, and the opportunity for connection was lost. She felt the weight of her regret.

She turned the letter over in her hands, tracing the lines of her own handwriting. The bookstore felt empty, the silence around her suffocating. The promise never kept.

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