sullen - Story 143100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment was filled with boxes, remnants of a life packed away. He wandered from room to room, touching the surfaces of his old furniture, objects that once held meaning but now felt heavy with the weight of loss.

He sat on the floor, surrounded by his belongings, and stared at the wall. The silence in the apartment was deafening, the echo of his loneliness amplified by the empty rooms. He didn't want to unpack. He didn't want to do anything.

He turned away from the boxes and sank deeper into the floor.

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