brooding - Story 17900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the lab hummed, a monotonous sound that grated on Kevin’s nerves. He stared at the marked-up science paper, a sea of red ink that represented failure. He felt a deep ache in his chest, a feeling of inadequacy that tightened with every passing second. He pushed his chair back from the desk, the scrape of metal echoing in the otherwise empty space. He felt the need to escape, to run, to distance himself from the evidence of his 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