sullen - Story 143028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of baking cookies didn't reach Thomas. He sat at the edge of the kitchen, watching his niece, Sarah, meticulously coloring a picture. A creature with swirling colors, her imaginary friend, Flicker, appeared in the picture. He felt his jaw clench.

He had spent the day in a haze of internal conflict, unable to concentrate on anything. The drawing served as a stark reminder of a simpler time, a simplicity he could no longer find.

He watched Sarah, her brow furrowed in concentration. He longed for the innocent world she inhabited. He said nothing, simply got up and retreated to 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