brooding - Story 17667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air grew heavy and stale. A bead of sweat trickled down his temple, and he resisted the urge to wipe it away. He leaned against the wall, eyes fixed on a spot on the metal panel.

"Are you okay, John?" asked his coworker, Jessica. He didn’t respond. He didn’t want her to know.

He felt a deep, inner pressure, a pressure that had been building for years. He had so many expectations, so many failures. It was all a burden, a crushing weight that threatened to suffocate him. The elevator felt like a tomb.

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