brooding - Story 17978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread usually brought comfort. But today, the scent only intensified the ache within him. The knock on the door, a series of quick, urgent taps, only made it worse.

It was Mr. and Mrs. Peterson, the couple from next door. Their smiles felt forced, their words carefully rehearsed. They talked about sunshine and growing things, their words a wall of optimistic sound. The space between their houses would be great for a garden.

He just stood there, his arms crossed, the shadows in the hallway deepening around him. Finally, he nodded curtly, wanting them to just go away. He closed the door.

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