sullen - Story 143139 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John sat hunched in his room, the curtains drawn, casting everything in a perpetual twilight. The world felt muffled, distant. He couldn’t seem to engage with anything.

He had reread the accusations several times and it all still felt unreal. He felt a deep weariness, a sense of resignation that settled over him. He was tired of it all.

He ignored his phone. He didn’t want to speak to anyone, to hear their condolences or their judgment. He wanted to be left alone with the shadows. He wanted to disappear.

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