brooding - Story 17896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house magnified Ethan’s turmoil. His parents had gone out, leaving him alone with his thoughts and the stinging "C-" on his math test. He paced the living room, the Persian rug feeling strangely abrasive beneath his feet. He ran his hand across his forehead, a constant, involuntary habit. The low hum of the refrigerator seemed to mock his misery. He picked up the remote but dropped it again, unable to focus on anything beyond the crushing disappointment.

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