brooding - Story 17737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery felt muted to Ben. He moved from painting to painting, not really seeing any of them. Each brushstroke, each splash of color, seemed to mock the dull grayness that had settled over his own world. The other people there seemed to chatter with such ease.

He pressed his lips together, feeling the tight line of his jaw. He wanted to go home. He wanted to be alone. He put his hands in his pockets and felt the cold, hard lump of his keys. He sighed softly.

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