brooding - Story 17738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home felt interminable. The scenery blurred past, a meaningless stream of trees and houses. He gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles ached. He kept replaying the conversation in his head. Every word, every inflection.

The dashboard lights cast an eerie glow on his face. He blinked rapidly, trying to clear his vision. He didn’t want to go home, didn’t want to face the empty apartment. He longed for something. He didn't know what it was.

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