sullen - Story 143209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold bit at her cheeks. Maria’s breath plumed out in front of her as she stood by her empty driveway. The car, her only reliable transportation, was nowhere to be found. Just a vacant patch of asphalt.

She picked up the notice, her fingers trembling slightly. The words blurred before her eyes, but the message was clear. She crumpled the paper. This was typical.

She went back inside and shut the door behind her with a definitive thud. The world tilted on its axis, and she found herself sitting on the floor, the remnants of the morning's cheer replaced with a pervasive emptiness.

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