sullen - Story 143029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Uncle Michael, look what I drew!" His niece, Olivia, had made a drawing of a friendly giant named Grumble. Michael felt his skin prickle at the sight of the familiar figure. He hadn't thought of Grumble in decades.

He had been avoiding his phone, skipping meals, and neglecting his responsibilities. The drawing only served to amplify his mood. He felt a deep sense of dissatisfaction with his life.

He managed a weak smile, then excused himself, heading for the garden. He needed to be by himself, surrounded by the calming influence of nature.

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