sullen - Story 143236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see?" the text message read. It was from his best friend. Ethan tossed his phone onto the bed and turned over, burying his face in the pillow. The weight of it pressed down on him, the details of his journal, now online, felt like a chain dragging him down.

He hated the bright morning light seeping through the curtains. He hated the chirping birds. He just wanted to shut everything out. He had skipped breakfast, and his stomach rumbled, a small physical echo of the turmoil within.

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