sullen - Story 143308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden, inexplicable heat in his cheeks. He could hear laughter from the other side of the partition. He recognized Maya's voice. The sound grated on his nerves.

He sat rigidly at his desk, his back ramrod straight. He pushed the papers in front of him, rearranging them without any real purpose. He felt a throbbing sensation behind his eyes.

He’d considered speaking to his manager, but the thought of the conversation, the explanations, the justifications, filled him with dread. He remained paralyzed, a statue of wounded pride.

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