brooding - Story 18000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of old books and dust did little to soothe him. He sat in the library, staring at the computer screen. His college essay. He felt the familiar weight of self-consciousness settling around him. It had been published as a sample.

He buried his face in his hands. It had been a moment of weakness, a moment he'd regretted almost immediately. He felt exposed, stripped bare. Every word felt like a judgment. He was sure everyone was looking at him.

He closed the laptop, a shudder running through him. He was ready to leave. He took a slow breath and then, he stood and walked out of the library.

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