sullen - Story 143014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride back from Aunt Carol's house was unusually silent. Liam sat hunched in the backseat, his arms crossed over his chest. His aunt, a pillar of the family, had proclaimed her intention to become a Wiccan. He stared out the window, the passing scenery blurring into a meaningless stream of colors.

He couldn't fathom it. Aunt Carol, with her sensible shoes and practical advice, suddenly chanting around a bonfire? A knot formed in his stomach. He wasn’t sure why the revelation bothered him so much.

His mother, sensing his mood, reached back and squeezed his hand. He didn’t reciprocate. He just wanted to be alone, to process this bewildering news in the quiet darkness of his room.

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