sullen - Story 143312 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John kicked at a loose stone on the path, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet park. The air was crisp, hinting at the coming autumn. He dragged his feet. Sarah was late, as usual. He’d already rehearsed his usual greeting, a cheerful "Hey!" ready on his tongue. He was tired of being the one who always initiated the conversation.

He saw her approaching, a large coffee cup in her hand. She smiled. *Too wide,* he thought. A little too bright. Then she greeted him, but instead of English, she said "Konnichiwa, John! Sorry I am late."

John’s jaw clenched. He turned away, pretending to examine a nearby tree. "Fine," he mumbled, his voice tight.

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