The courtroom felt like a cage to Oliver. His sister, Charlotte, was basking in the news that she would inherit a significant piece of land. He felt like his heart was sinking, each beat a drumbeat of resentment.

He was given a small, metal key, the kind used to unlock a safe. The lawyer offered no explanation.

Oliver didn't want to know. He already had enough. He walked out into the bright sunlight, the key burning in his pocket. The city felt bleak, empty.

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