sullen - Story 143126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had tried to focus on his work, but the document on his laptop screen remained a blur. He’d been looking forward to seeing his daughter receive her university acceptance letter in person, a moment he'd dreamt of for years. The delay felt like a personal affront. His fingers drummed a restless rhythm on the table.

He took a deep, frustrated breath, the air around him seeming to weigh him down. He glanced at the other passengers, their animated conversations grating on him. They seemed so… happy. He felt utterly alone, isolated by his own private, simmering storm.

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