brooding - Story 17898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling campus life was a blur as David navigated the crowds, the "C" in his coding class a lead weight dragging him down. He avoided eye contact, his shoulders slumped as he walked. He usually looked forward to lunch with his friends, but today, the thought of social interaction was overwhelming. He found a secluded bench beneath a towering oak tree and sat alone, the vibrant autumn leaves swirling around him, a kaleidoscope of beauty he couldn't appreciate.

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