sullen - Story 143130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't touched the complimentary snacks offered by the airline. His face was a mask of restrained frustration. He was missing the birth of his first grandchild. He'd been counting down the days, imagining holding the tiny bundle in his arms. The delay seemed like a personal tragedy, a cruel twist of fate.

He leaned back in his chair, his shoulders slumped. The thought of the missed moments, the memories he wouldn’t share, was a heavy burden. He stared blankly at the ceiling, the sterile white a stark contrast to the vibrant joy he was missing.

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