brooding - Story 17649 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, what do you think?" asked his wife. His response was a shrug, a dismissal. He picked at his dinner, the food tasteless in his mouth. He ignored her question.

He knew he should talk to her, share his fears. But the words seemed to stick in his throat. He thought about the changes to come, the impending threat to his job.

He felt the frustration simmer. He pushed his plate away, the sudden movement knocking over his glass of wine.

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