sullen - Story 143277 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant ringing of the phones in the call center was deafening. Every shrill sound was a pinprick. Michael tapped a pen against the desk, the rhythmic tapping a futile attempt to calm his racing thoughts. He’d requested to be moved to the accounts receivable department. Instead, he was stuck here.

He took a deep breath, but the air in the room felt thick and oppressive. The walls seemed to close in on him. He felt disconnected, adrift in a sea of impersonal voices and frustrated customers. He hated it.

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