brooding - Story 17666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the mirrored wall. It stared back, a pale, grim version of himself. He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging strands that then clung, limp, to his forehead. He wasn't surprised.

"This is ridiculous," he muttered, his voice barely audible. He turned his gaze away from his reflection. He didn't want to look at himself. He felt disgusted.

He felt the tension in his shoulders rise, tight and heavy. He ignored Emily, the woman across from him. He couldn’t handle any interaction. He needed to be alone. The weight of his own inner turmoil was far more than he could bear.

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