brooding - Story 17910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't shaved, hadn't showered. The grime of despair clung to him. He was a shell of his former self. He had retreated into the depths of his apartment, the shades drawn. The outside world had vanished.

The constant low-level ache in his head was a physical manifestation of his state. The news about Arcadia had been the last straw. Everything was a lie.

He picked at a loose thread on his worn jeans, his movements slow and deliberate. He felt as if his body were filled with lead, unable to move forward, or even truly back. The world had gone gray.

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