sullen - Story 143027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant chatter of the family holiday was grating on Leo. He sat apart from the others, staring out the window, his gaze distant. A drawing of a whimsical dog, Barnaby, sat on the small table. He felt nothing but a dull ache.

He'd spent the morning avoiding eye contact, retreating into himself. The laughter of his cousins only served to amplify his mood. Barnaby's presence in the drawing seemed like another unwelcome intrusion.

He glanced at the scene on the paper, then back out the window. He wanted to go for a walk, to be alone, to let the world stop spinning for a while.

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