sullen - Story 143306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in his car was thick with unspoken anger. He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles were white. The drive home felt endless. Every red light was a deliberate act of obstruction.

He hadn't been to the gym in weeks, and the tightness in his back was making his mood worse. He was the one who was supposed to be promoted. He’d spent years building up his skills and experience.

He slammed the door, the noise echoing in the quiet house. He kicked off his shoes and slumped onto the sofa, the remote control a useless weight in his hand. He was losing his grip.

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