sullen - Story 143238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was a blur. Mark clutched the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were white. The radio was blaring, a cheerful noise he couldn't bear. Every turn of the wheel felt like a conscious effort. His diary, open for the whole world to see, was like a brand on his soul.

The house seemed to shrink as he walked through the door. His parents’ casual conversation felt like an intrusion. He grunted responses, retreating to his room, where he slammed the door and locked it. The silence offered no comfort.

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