sullen - Story 143258 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report played on the television, the presenter's voice a smooth, polished monotone. He sat on the floor, legs crossed, unmoving. The story, his story, was being presented as someone else’s.

His gaze flickered, but the words were a jumble, a meaningless noise. The walls seemed to close in, the room shrinking around him. He felt disconnected, like an outsider looking in.

He reached for the remote, but his hand stopped halfway. He didn't bother to turn off the TV.

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