sullen - Story 143228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the kitchen, a stark contrast to the bitterness churning within. Noah watched his mother, her face alight with nostalgia, as she spread out a collection of his old papers. He leaned against the counter, his arms crossed.

She held up a report card, pointing to a string of A's. "You were so brilliant, honey!"

He flinched. The word, the assessment, felt like a judgment. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something. He felt the familiar weight of obligation, the suffocating burden of expectation. His jaw muscles clenched as he bit back the retort that sprang to his lips.

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