brooding - Story 17808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hated the forced cheer of the office Christmas party. The paper snowflakes and the tinny music made his skin crawl. The news of his half-sister had cast a pall over everything, even the festive season. It was as if a dark cloud had permanently settled over his head.

He kept to himself, nursing a whiskey and avoiding eye contact. He felt exposed, stripped of his composure. He imagined her, this stranger, and the thought twisted in his gut.

Someone tapped him on the shoulder. He turned, his smile forced, his eyes hollow. He wished, with all his being, to be anywhere else.

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