brooding - Story 17735 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The music at the party pulsed, a relentless beat that thrummed through Leo’s body. He stood on the edge of the dance floor, nursing a lukewarm beer, watching everyone else. Laughter and conversation swirled around him, a meaningless cacophony. He felt disconnected, adrift. He wanted to disappear.

He saw Alex across the room, smiling and laughing with a group of friends. The sight of her, radiant and carefree, only served to deepen the pit in his stomach. He took another gulp of beer, the taste metallic and stale.

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