brooding - Story 17830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee did nothing to soothe Sarah. She checked her email one last time, a habitual act she already regretted. The email from her publisher arrived this morning, and she hadn't been able to shake it off.

She stared out of the window at the cityscape, feeling an intense disappointment. The book cover of the competitor's novel that she was now unable to escape, mocked her from across the desk. It had the same title, same premise, same target audience.

Sarah felt a cold wave wash over her. She knew the hours she put into writing, the struggles, the rewrites, the emotional investment. She ran her hand through her hair, a sign of frustration. A sigh escaped her lips.

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