brooding - Story 17992 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the library hummed, a monotonous drone that felt like it was drilling into Leo’s temples. He flipped through the pamphlet, his fingers tracing the glossy paper. There it was, his name, his essay, printed in the “Exceptional Examples” section. He hadn't told anyone. He'd poured his heart out, thinking it would get him into a good school, and now his stupid honesty was on display for all to see.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to vanish. He felt the familiar weight settle in his chest, making each breath an effort. He needed to get out, away from the judgmental stares he imagined following him.

He slammed the pamphlet shut and nearly knocked over a stack of books. "Sorry," he muttered, his voice barely audible. He shoved the pamphlet into his bag and bolted, his heart hammering against his ribs.

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