sullen - Story 143077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From his balcony, Daniel watched the city lights flicker to life, each one a tiny spark of a joy he couldn’t share. He leaned against the railing, the cold metal seeping into his bones. The usual enthusiasm for… everything… had evaporated.

A ping from "MusicMaven" broke through the quiet, a message accompanying a link to a new song. "You should listen to this. Think you’ll like it."

Daniel felt a sudden, unexpected tightening in his chest. He and MusicMaven had been sharing their music for months. They both had mentioned residing in the same place. Now the thought of encountering this person in real life filled him with a strange mix of…something. He rubbed his eyes and turned back inside, shutting the balcony door behind him.

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