sullen - Story 143189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was deafening, punctuated only by the rhythmic tick of the grandfather clock in the hallway. Sarah sat on the couch, staring at the muted television screen, the images flickering without registering. Her partner, Chris, was supposedly "working late" again, but the evidence spoke a different language.

The phone. The constant calls from a blocked number. The way Chris went to the balcony to talk.

She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. She got up and walked to the phone, then turned away. She went to the window, watching the rain beat against the glass. The sky mirrored her state of mind.

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