sullen - Story 143109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew he should try and be friendly, for appearances sake. But the pressure had been building for months. Today, he was scheduled to train his replacement, a young man who looked like he had the perfect life.

The trainee was named Josh, and he was already smiling, all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. He greeted him enthusiastically. “So, are we doing payroll today?” Josh asked, his tone upbeat.

“Maybe,” he replied, his gaze locked on the window. “We might get to it.” He didn't want to explain the details, but he had to. He sighed and went to his computer.

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