sullen - Story 143050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant movement next door grated on him. It was as if someone had deliberately turned up the volume on his feelings of being stuck. He'd poured himself a large whiskey, the amber liquid doing little to warm his bones.

He picked up the remote but couldn't seem to focus on the screen. He turned the TV off. Everything felt pointless. He stared out the window, a bleak reflection in the glass. The only thing that offered some solace was the darkness.

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