brooding - Story 17800 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence was deafening. Lisa stared at the flickering flames in the fireplace. The realtor’s whispered explanation – a tragic suicide, a young woman overwhelmed by grief – had left a hollow ache in her heart.

She’d always loved the warmth of the fireplace, but now, the dancing flames seemed malevolent, reflecting the darkness within. She stood up and walked from the room, not wanting to see any of the things that reminded her of the house's past.

The house was supposed to be a refuge. The house was supposed to be a happy place. She walked into the garden, and sat on the bench.

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