sullen - Story 143036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the subject line a sickening jolt: "Your Life Story - Out Now!" David felt his blood run cold. The biography he never authorized had been published. He felt a deep, chilling sense of violation, a personal assault.

He pushed away from his desk, the chair scraping loudly against the floor. He paced his small office, his fists clenched at his sides. He thought of his life, his secrets, now laid bare for the world to scrutinize. The thought made his stomach churn.

He picked up a paperweight from his desk and hurled it across the room. It shattered against the wall, the sound a brief, satisfying release. Then, the feeling of emptiness returned, heavier than before.

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