brooding - Story 17960 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The desert wind whipped sand against his face as he stared at the rusted metal box. The landscape stretched before him, vast and indifferent. Robert didn't remember the hike, didn't remember the arduous digging. The sun beat down, turning the air thick and heavy. He felt a deep, pervasive weariness. He wrenched open the lid, revealing a collection of trinkets, each a silent testament to a forgotten past. He closed his eyes, a flicker of something close to despair crossing his face.

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