sullen - Story 143235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the cramped apartment felt oppressive. Daniel sat hunched on the floor, surrounded by crumpled pages from the notebook he had tried to burn last night. The acrid smell still lingered. He felt a burning in his throat, a desire to lash out, to hurt.

His reflection in the window seemed to mock him, the hollow eyes and tight lips a clear reflection of his mood. He just wanted to disappear. He wanted to go someplace where no one knew his name, no one knew his secrets. He felt a cold dread wrapping around him, squeezing the air from his lungs.

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