brooding - Story 17761 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the car windows, mirroring the storm inside. He gripped the steering wheel, knuckles bone-white, as he pulled up to the overgrown lot. It used to be so open, sunlight dappling the bark of the sapling he'd planted with his father. Now, a raw stump, slick with moisture and shame, was all that remained. A bitter taste coated his tongue, the same taste that always came before a fight. He kicked a loose stone across the muddy ground, the sound swallowed by the wind.

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