brooding - Story 17879 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold, sterile atmosphere of the corporate office was a stark contrast to the warmth of his studio. Liam sat in the waiting room, the glossy magazine featuring his architectural design, attributed to another firm, staring back at him. He felt the blood drain from his face.

He picked at the loose thread of his trousers, the movements mechanical. He was an invisible man, his achievements erased, his voice silenced. The injustice of it all was overwhelming, a crushing weight that left him unable to breathe.

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