brooding - Story 17877 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the market stalls seemed to mock him. Kai pushed through the crowded street, the scent of spices failing to offer any comfort. His digital illustrations, once his pride, now adorned a series of cheap posters, branded with a different name and selling for a pittance.

He felt the weight of his unacknowledged work. He considered his pen a useless object. His hand clenched into a fist. He felt utterly diminished, a ghost in his own life.

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