brooding - Story 17785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, perfectly framed, showed a life she hadn't managed to build. The house, painted a vibrant blue, felt jarringly unfamiliar. A family smiled in the front yard. Their happiness, their ease, felt like an accusation. She hadn't visited home in years. And this listing felt like the final severing of all ties.

She felt a strange disconnect, like she was watching herself from a distance, observing someone who was supposed to feel something. The room felt cold, even with the heater on full blast. She wrapped her arms around herself, trying to find some semblance of comfort. A hollow pit formed in her chest.

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