sullen - Story 143095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment was a disaster, a tangible reflection of his inner turmoil. Clothes littered the floor, dirty dishes piled in the sink, empty takeout containers scattered across the coffee table. He hadn't bothered to clean, hadn't bothered to do anything but exist.

The doorbell rang. He knew it was his parents. He considered ignoring it, but the incessant buzzing eventually wore him down. He opened the door, bracing himself for the lecture.

His mother stood there, her eyes filled with a mixture of worry and disappointment. She surveyed the scene without a word, her expression unreadable. His father just shook his head and sighed. He turned away and returned to his chaos.

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