brooding - Story 17848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the mirror, barely recognizing the gaunt face and shadowed eyes. The complaint, this time delivered in person, had been a sharp jab to his already raw nerves. He had snapped, the words he had yelled a betrayal of everything he wanted to be.

He turned away from his reflection, disgusted. He ran water into the sink and splashed it on his face, trying to wash away the feeling. He felt dirty, contaminated, a failure.

The scent of the soap, normally a comfort, now felt like another assault on his senses. He needed to be alone.

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