sullen - Story 143196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Everything alright, Dad?” Ben asked, his voice hesitant.

James grunted in response. He hadn't touched his breakfast. The sunshine streaming through the kitchen window mocked his mood. He could barely bring himself to eat.

The list of teachers for his son had arrived in the post yesterday. It had been like a punch to the gut. The name ‘Mr. Thorne’ leaping off the paper and slapping him. The bully. The man who had made James's school days a misery.

"Yeah," he finally replied, his voice flat. He pushed the plate away, the taste of breakfast suddenly repulsive. He needed more time to prepare for this.

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