sullen - Story 143049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The construction noise cut right through Mrs. Henderson’s afternoon nap. She sat bolt upright, heart hammering against her ribs. She felt betrayed. She had cherished her routine.

She shuffled to the window, peering out at the scene. The world outside was busy. A world she could no longer bear. She sank back into her armchair, the quietness of her apartment now feeling oppressive. She'd pull the blankets over her head.

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