brooding - Story 17719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat crashed over Marco. He felt it in the palms of his hands, in his racing heart. He reread the notice, the words jumping off the page. He balled it up, then straightened it, then balled it up again. He could hardly breathe.

He stood and began to pace, his footsteps quick and erratic. He walked into the bathroom, splashing cold water on his face. The water didn't help. He needed to be alone.

He looked in the mirror, his reflection a stranger. He needed an escape.

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