brooding - Story 17645 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, shattering the fragile quiet of the afternoon. Liam ignored it, letting the automated voice of his voicemail pick up. He stared at the mess on his desk, files overflowing, papers scattered. He'd always been meticulous, organized. Now, the chaos mirrored his inner turmoil.

He felt the prickle of anger at the back of his neck, a familiar warning sign. He felt the sting of betrayal. He felt his face heat with frustration.

He knew he should call his mother, tell her he'd miss dinner. Instead, he reached for his phone, and dialed a number he hadn't used in months.

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