brooding - Story 17776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A leaden feeling settled in Clara's stomach as the lawyer began to read out the will. Her brother, Ben, clapped his hands with an enthusiasm that felt forced. He was to inherit their family's business. She just listened, her gaze fixed on the mahogany table.

Her inheritance was a simple, wooden toolbox, worn smooth with age. Inside, nestled on a bed of sawdust, were a set of antique tools, including a hammer and a saw. The lawyer gave her a brief explanation, which she barely heard.

Clara left the office, the toolbox heavy in her hands. The sun was bright, blinding. She saw the city, and the tools felt like an insult.

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