The attic was filled with dust and forgotten memories. John sifted through the boxes, each object a painful reminder. He’d meant to text his brother, asking for help with the move. The message had somehow reached his deceased father’s number. A wave of grief overwhelmed him.

He sank to his knees, surrounded by the ghosts of his past. He felt a profound sense of loss, a longing for something he could never regain. His chest ached, and his eyes welled up with tears. He missed his father.

He received a notification: "Unknown." He was being haunted. He wanted to scream.

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:
S0.749
😞0.329
그의0.299
un0.273
但他0.270
Suppressed:
de-0.917
la-0.603
a-0.369
l-0.335
her-0.330