brooding - Story 17857 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery felt jarring to Clara. She read her father's list, the ink now slightly faded, the words a gentle reminder of all the things he had wanted to do. "Paint a masterpiece." She felt a persistent ache in her heart, a weight that pulled her down. She hated that her father was gone, so abruptly, and she hated this list. She leaned against a wall, feeling the coldness seep into her bones.

A tear rolled down her cheek, landing on the paper.

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