brooding - Story 17894 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat alone in the bleachers after the test scores were posted, the vast, empty expanse of the football field a desolate landscape reflecting his inner state. The "F" on the paper felt like a brand, searing into his self-esteem. He usually excelled, always the top of his class in every subject. Now, the weight of failure crushed him. He clenched his fists, knuckles white, the muscles in his arms tensing as if readying for some unseen battle.

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