sullen - Story 143089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold pizza sat untouched on the coffee table. The TV flickered with a meaningless show. Liam couldn't focus on anything. His neighbor, Emily, wanted a fence. It felt personal, as if she were purposefully trying to annoy him.

He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. The air in the room felt thick, oppressive. Every muscle in his body felt tense, coiled. He couldn't shake the feeling of being wronged, of being pushed out of his own space.

He got up and started pacing. He didn't know how to express his feelings. He just knew that this fence was the last straw. The idea was like a festering wound in his mind.

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