sullen - Story 143268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home felt longer than usual. The radio blared upbeat music, mocking the turmoil in Leo’s heart. He gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were white. The rejection stung worse than a physical blow.

He pulled into his driveway, the house looming before him, a symbol of the ordinary life he was now destined to lead. He didn’t want to go inside. The thought of facing his parents, their questions, their pity, was unbearable. He slumped in his seat.

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