brooding - Story 17739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door of his room, the sound echoing in the silent house. He threw himself onto his bed, burying his face in the pillow. The scent of his own laundry, usually comforting, was suffocating. He punched the mattress, the impact a dull thud. He wanted to release all the pressure, all the pain.

He lay there for a long time, the silence broken only by his ragged breaths. He felt a tear track down his cheek and disappear into the fabric of the pillow.

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