sullen - Story 143012 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windowpane, mirroring the storm brewing inside Maya. Her brother, David, had just informed the family he was joining the Hare Krishna. She’d retreated to her bedroom, slamming the door behind her.

Her hands clenched into fists. He'd always been the easygoing one, the peacemaker. The thought of him, shaving his head and chanting, was almost comical. But behind the humor, a bitter taste lingered.

She kicked at a discarded shoe. The familiar scent of her lavender-scented room did little to soothe her. He was abandoning them, weren't he? Leaving her with this... this emptiness.

Emotion: sullen

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -1.51 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.22

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sullen. 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 sullen stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sullen emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sullen vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.404
`😞`	0.282
`’`	0.254
`:(`	0.233
`无法`	0.215

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.539
`!`	-0.276
`la`	-0.263
`🤩`	-0.225
`que`	-0.216