He walked through the house, the polished wooden floors reflecting his restless movements. The discovery of the account had stolen his appetite, his ability to focus, his peace of mind. He found the evidence tucked away, a secret language speaking of betrayal. A knot formed in his stomach. Each step felt heavy.

He ran a hand over his face, as if trying to wipe away the truth. He felt trapped, suffocated by the unseen walls of the lies. The air itself seemed heavy, dense, and he struggled to draw a full breath. The quiet in the house amplified everything, a loud and constant reminder of his pain.

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:
S0.749
😞0.329
그의0.299
un0.273
但他0.270
Suppressed:
de-0.917
la-0.603
a-0.369
l-0.335
her-0.330