brooding - Story 17660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment was filled with the scent of stale cigarettes and a quiet ache. Mark stood by the window, the city lights blurring through the rain. He’d intended to text his dealer, running low. The message landed with the police. He slumped down, all strength sapped.

He felt the noose tightening around him. He felt the cold fear grip his heart. He ran his hand over his face. He felt trapped. He wanted to disappear.

The door buzzer rang, a single, insistent note. He closed his eyes. He had no control over anything anymore. He opened the door.

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