brooding - Story 17709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the clock, watching the second hand crawl, each tick a hammer blow against his skull. The air in the office was thick, oppressive. He felt trapped. He was certain his co-worker could feel it.

"Oh my gosh, Camp Silverbrook. I have the best memories there," said Emily.

He glared out the window. He felt the world tighten around him. He felt as if someone had punched him in the gut.

“Me too,” he said quietly, his voice barely audible. He turned his head and walked away.

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