Liam slammed the door to his dorm room, the sound echoing the frustration that churned in his stomach. He’d poured his heart into that project – late nights fueled by coffee and sheer determination. Now, a paltry "D" mocked him from the top of the assignment. He kicked a stray textbook across the room, the impact a dull thud. He felt a coldness spread through him, a hollowness that even his favorite playlist couldn't fill. He sank onto his bed, staring at the ceiling, the disappointment a heavy weight on his chest.

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