sullen - Story 143224 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the spare bedroom was thick with the scent of mothballs and forgotten things. Clara ran her hand over the smooth surface of the box, avoiding looking at her mother who was perched on the edge of the bed. Her jaw was clenched. Her shoulders were rigid.

Her mother, beaming, pulled out a painting. A vibrant, if somewhat messy, depiction of a sunflower field. “You were so creative, sweetheart!”

Clara snatched the painting, then quickly set it back on top of the pile. The memories. The pressure. She wanted to shatter something, to destroy all the saccharine sentimentality. The room pulsed with a silent tension. She felt trapped, suffocated by the ghosts of her childhood.

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