sullen - Story 143128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed incessantly, a constant reminder of the manufactured environment he was trapped in. He ran a hand through his hair, his movements jerky and uncoordinated. His brother's surprise birthday party, an event he had helped organize, would now be happening without him. He was the one who was supposed to take the cake!

He felt a sudden surge of anger, directed at the airline, at the weather, at everything. He kicked at an empty water bottle under his seat, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet gate. He felt completely adrift, lost in a sea of impersonal faces and robotic announcements.

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