brooding - Story 17727 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house groaned and creaked around him. He felt the cold of the drafty attic seep into his bones. His father's letter: a resignation. A revelation. A secret. He traced the words with his fingertip, each stroke a betrayal of the carefully constructed facade.

He felt a tightening in his chest, making it difficult to breathe. He stared at the faded ink, wondering about the man his father had been. He hadn't known this man, this hidden version. His father, the way he had known him, was a stranger.

He clenched his fists, knuckles white. The letter crumpled in his grasp. He let it fall, watching it land on the dusty floorboards. He felt a sudden, fierce need to escape, to run far away from this house, from this past.

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