sullen - Story 143226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d avoided his mother all day, but he knew this was coming. Now, here he was, in the garage, the air thick with the smell of old paint and forgotten tools. Liam kicked at a pebble on the concrete floor. The afternoon sun cast long shadows, mimicking the darkness that seemed to have settled over him.

His mother, beaming, held up a crudely crafted clay pot. "Remember this? You were so proud!"

He just stared at it, the weight of the past pressing down on him. The carefully preserved remnants of a life he no longer recognized, a life that no longer seemed to fit. He wanted to shout, to rage, to just disappear. His hands clenched into fists.

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