brooding - Story 17988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. The apartment, once a cozy nest, suddenly felt cold and alien. He felt the blood rush to his face, his ears buzzing. He ripped the note from the hallway bulletin board.

He started clenching his fists and started walking. He paced in the hall, and then he paced in his apartment, feeling the same emotions.

He hadn't eaten all day. He'd lost his appetite. He felt nothing but a deep, pervasive sense of frustration. He kicked a chair.

He started reading, but the words swam before his eyes. He tossed the book across the room.

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