brooding - Story 17750 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been to sleep in almost 30 hours. He knew what he was going to find when he looked outside. The sycamore.

He didn’t say a word. He went to the window, pulled back the blinds. The sycamore was gone, uprooted, lying across the entire backyard. His neighbor's face, etched with shock and misery, was visible in the debris.

He felt nothing. Or maybe he felt too much. He couldn't tell anymore. He dropped the blind and went back to his bed. The world could end, and he wouldn't care. He pulled the covers over his head.

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