sullen - Story 143107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the server room was a low, constant thrum that echoed the emptiness inside him. He didn’t want to be here. He didn’t want to explain the coding to some kid.

He found the new guy, a scrawny young man, already hunched over his computer, peering at the screen with an intense focus. *Probably won’t last a week,* he thought.

He walked over slowly, his back slightly hunched. “Alright, the scripts… they're all documented somewhere,” he mumbled, gesturing vaguely toward a messy pile of papers. He didn’t elaborate, just turned and stared at the flickering lights.

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