brooding - Story 17748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report showed footage of the storm damage. The local community was offering help. He barely registered it. He sipped his lukewarm coffee.

He remembered the sound, the earth-shattering crunch of the elm's demise. The branches had pinned Mrs. Peterson's car. The image played in his head, a constant loop of destruction. He felt a weariness that seeped deep into his bones.

He glanced at his watch. He needed to be getting ready for work, for another day. He sat there, unable to move, unable to face it.

He sat there for a long time.

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