brooding - Story 17777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile environment of the lawyer's office felt suffocating to Miles. His sister, Iris, had always been the golden child, and now she was set to inherit their family's country manor. Miles felt a dull ache in his chest, a sense of quiet frustration.

He was handed a single, leather-bound book. The cover was plain, with no title. The lawyer explained that it was a collection of his grandmother's recipes, handwritten and annotated over many decades. Miles had no interest in cooking.

He held the book, the weight of it a burden. He couldn’t bring himself to open it.

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