sullen - Story 143192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the car windows, mirroring the bleakness inside Maya. The drive to pick up Leo from his first day felt unnecessarily long. Every red light seemed to taunt her, prolonging the inevitable.

She'd been bracing herself for this. She knew the moment Leo started school, she would have to face the woman who made her own elementary school days miserable. Mrs. Peterson. Her presence felt like a dark cloud following Maya since she’d received the class list.

Pulling up to the curb, she saw Leo beaming, clutching a drawing. She didn't want to ruin his joy. But as he rambled about his day, and the woman who'd taught her the same subjects emerged from the classroom doorway, a familiar knot tightened in her stomach.

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