brooding - Story 17736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the length of his tiny apartment, the worn floorboards groaning under his weight. His hands were clenched into fists. He had to keep moving, keep busy. He couldn't stop thinking about the conversation. About the future. About the emptiness that was looming.

The walls seemed to be closing in, shrinking the space. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the roots. He felt the familiar sting in his eyes. He stopped pacing and leaned heavily against the wall.

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