sullen - Story 143197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride was long and arduous. Liam stared out the window, watching the landscape blur by. The world was a mess of grey clouds and drizzling rain.

He’d seen the email last night. He'd done his best to pretend it didn't bother him. But the thought of it sat in his stomach like a lead weight. Mr. Franklin. The man who had broken his spirit in the sixth grade.

When they arrived, Liam couldn’t meet his son's eye as he walked into school. He knew his son was looking for his reaction. He knew he was failing at hiding.

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