sullen - Story 143024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Uncle Ben, look!" Leo, his nephew, held up a crayon drawing. Ben looked at it, his jaw clenched. There, in vibrant purple and green, was a creature he hadn't thought of in decades. The Whispering Willow, a guardian of the forest, and the constant confidante of his early years. A coldness spread through him.

He had spent the morning avoiding everyone, pretending to be engrossed in a book. This drawing just added to the frustration he'd been fighting all day. The familiarity of the image grated on him. He felt disconnected from everyone, even himself.

"Pretty cool, kiddo," he said, forcing a gruff tone. He snatched the drawing and placed it on the side table, hoping that it would be forgotten. He retreated back to his silent corner, the image of the Whispering Willow seared into his mind.

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