brooding - Story 17833 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The leather of the briefcase felt rough beneath Elena’s fingers as she traced the outline of the hidden compartment. Sunlight streamed in, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air, a grotesque ballet. A dull ache throbbed behind her temples. The air hung thick with unspoken resentment. She hadn't spoken to David since finding the documents last night.

The silence in the house was deafening, punctuated only by the rhythmic tick of the grandfather clock in the hallway. She thought about their anniversary, their trip to Italy, the promises they had made, and a burning sensation crawled up her throat. He'd been so sure he’d get away with it. She felt a surge of cold fury, a desire to rip the truth from 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