sullen - Story 143178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was a blur. The rain smeared the city lights, blurring the edges of the familiar landscape. Sarah, after discovering her friend, a "high-flying lawyer," was actually a paralegal, felt a hollowness. It wasn’t anger. It wasn’t sadness. It was more like… nothingness.

She replayed their conversations in her head, the shared confidences, the seemingly innocent questions about their jobs. All lies. Deceptive, elaborate lies. She gripped the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles were white.

She pulled into her driveway, the house looming dark and silent. She didn’t want to go inside, didn’t want to face the empty echo of her own thoughts. She wanted to erase the day entirely.

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