sullen - Story 143046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Honestly,” David grumbled, slamming the front door. The scent of fresh-cut wood and sawdust hung heavy in the air. He hadn't bothered with lunch, the construction already ruined his appetite. He felt everything in his body tighten.

He marched back inside, grabbing a pair of noise-canceling headphones. He needed to find some refuge. The world outside, the world of the renovation, was a place he could not bear.

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