sullen - Story 143288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread usually filled Leo with happiness. Today, it only felt cloying. He sat at the kitchen table, listlessly stirring his coffee. His phone vibrated. A request from Daniel, the boy who had stolen his favourite toy and then gloated about it. The past felt very present.

He slammed his fist against the table. The coffee sloshed over the rim of the mug. He felt as though someone had squeezed the breath from his lungs.

He rose from the table, needing to escape the suffocating weight.

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