brooding - Story 17915 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, ordinarily welcome, felt like a spotlight on Miles's back as he stood on the porch. The heat was oppressive. His gaze followed the path of the sunlight up the trunk of the oak, its crown nearly blotting out the blue sky. His neighbor, Sarah, had spoken to him again this morning. She wanted him to consider removing the tree.

He rubbed his temples, a headache beginning to bloom behind his eyes. He imagined the sound of the saw, the tearing of the wood, the final crash. He saw her face when she was speaking to him. It was a pleasant face, but the words felt like needles.

He turned away from the tree, and the sun, and went inside, pulling the blinds shut.

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