brooding - Story 17998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The classroom felt stifling. The instructor, oblivious to the turmoil churning inside him, praised the essay as an example of exceptional writing. He could feel the eyes of his classmates on him, curious and judging. He wanted to shout. To tell them that it was a lie, that he wasn’t that person anymore.

He focused on the scuff marks on his shoes, the worn fabric of his jeans. The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. He felt a tightness in his chest, making it difficult to breathe. He wanted to disappear. He felt like his old self, the one he was working to forget, was sitting there in the room, too.

He didn't speak the rest of the day.

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