brooding - Story 17664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The claustrophobia was setting in. Helen’s breath hitched in her throat as she focused on the pattern of the elevator's floor, a simple grid of grey and black tiles. Her heart was a frantic drum against her ribs. She couldn't stand it.

She glanced at Brian, her coworker, who was trying to look nonchalant. She turned away. She didn't want to see his face. She felt like something inside of her was about to burst.

She pressed her palms flat against her eyes, the pressure a small comfort. She was so close. So close to finally getting things right. And now this. The injustice of it all was almost unbearable.

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