brooding - Story 17994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email had arrived first thing, subject line: “Your Essay: Featured!” Now, in the cramped confines of his tiny apartment, Liam felt the slow burn of resentment building inside him. The essay, a raw, vulnerable depiction of his fractured family, was now being used as a recruiting tool.

He paced the length of his apartment, running his hands through his hair. He remembered the pain, the shame, and the vulnerability of that time. He was tired of others judging him and his family. He needed to escape from the heavy feeling that was on him.

He kicked a small box across the room. He needed to work, or maybe he needed to break something.

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