He stood motionless, a statue carved from granite, staring at the empty space. His jaw clenched, each muscle in his face rigid. He’d brought his daughter here to show her the tree, a testament to the passage of time. A legacy. Now, he wouldn't be able to. The silence of the empty space was deafening. He cleared his throat, the sound rough and strained, and turned, his shoulders slumping. He hadn't felt this deflated since… well, since forever.

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:
S0.749
😞0.329
그의0.299
un0.273
但他0.270
Suppressed:
de-0.917
la-0.603
a-0.369
l-0.335
her-0.330