brooding - Story 17670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant, relentless blinking of the "IN USE" light felt like a personal insult. He was already short-tempered from the day's events. He was already stressed.

He watched the second hand tick on his watch, each movement a mocking reminder of the minutes passing. His jaw was tight. He wasn't going to crack.

He felt the familiar, bitter taste of disappointment coating his tongue. He didn't deserve any of this. The world was cruel, and he was tired of it. "Just great," he muttered, his voice flat and devoid of emotion.

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