sullen - Story 143187 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the apartment seemed to close in on him. Daniel sat on the edge of the bed, the rumpled sheets a testament to a night of fitful sleep. He’d woken up in the night to the sound of his partner, Ben, whispering into his phone in the kitchen.

He was silent until dawn, unable to face it.

The calls had been growing more frequent, the excuses more elaborate. The world felt out of focus, as if viewed through a distorted lens. He ran his hand through his hair, a gesture of helplessness.

He rose from the bed and started making coffee.

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