brooding - Story 17798 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was still, heavy with the scent of damp earth and decaying leaves. Ben stood on the porch, staring at the peeling paint of the front door. The revelation – the previous owner had been a convicted arsonist, his house torched in a fit of rage – had left him reeling.

He wanted to run, to escape the suffocating weight of the house’s history. He’d always considered himself to be a reasonable man. Now, he felt the irrational urge to destroy it.

He pushed open the door and stepped inside. The house, the air felt stale, and the shadows seemed to close in, and he felt a pressure on his chest. He felt as if something was watching him.

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