sullen - Story 143229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The basement was a labyrinth of shadows and forgotten treasures. He trailed behind his mother as she navigated the narrow passage between storage boxes. He felt a deep-seated resistance, a powerful aversion to the past she was so eagerly unearthing.

She pulled out a handwritten story, adorned with childish illustrations. "Look at this, Michael! You were such a writer!"

He barely glanced at it, his gaze fixed on the damp concrete floor. He felt a surge of resentment, a desire to dismiss it all, to obliterate the memories. The air grew heavy, thick with unspoken words and unresolved tensions.

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