sullen - Story 143137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It’s not true,” he mumbled, his voice raspy. Liam’s apartment felt small, the walls closing in. He stared at his laptop screen, the evidence against him flashing in front of his eyes.

He felt the sting of tears behind his eyes. He blinked them back, refusing to let them fall. His hands were clasped so tightly they ached. He thought of all the effort he had put into the essay. Now, the whole thing felt ruined.

He pushed away from his desk and walked to the window. The city lights blazed, a dazzling display of indifference. He sank into a chair, the darkness of the room mirroring the darkness of his thoughts.

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