brooding - Story 17820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the past pressed down on him with each step he took towards the building. He felt like an actor forced to play a role in a play he hadn't chosen. He was not looking forward to the encounter.

He'd spent the past few days wrestling with his conscience. He should probably just cancel. He could find another therapist. There were many others. But the thought of avoiding Mark, of giving him the power to dictate his actions, filled him with a bitter resentment.

He reached the door, his hand hovering over the handle. He took a deep breath, and it caught in his throat. He pushed the door open, ready to get this over with. He was prepared to do anything to get past this.

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