sullen - Story 143227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt hollow, echoing with silence. Amelia wandered through the cluttered living room, avoiding her mother, who was happily sorting through a pile of boxes. She felt a profound sense of distance, an inability to connect. Her gaze swept over the dusty furniture.

A brightly colored diorama of the solar system caught her eye. She recognized her own childish handwriting. She didn't want to engage, didn't want to remember, didn't want to feel. She felt her throat tighten, the familiar sting of tears pricking her eyes. She wanted to run.

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