sullen - Story 143316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped apartment felt stifling. Sarah paced the living room, her steps quick and agitated. Daniel was in the bedroom, supposedly working. She heard the faint clicking of keys and the murmur of what sounded like…a language lesson? It was hard to concentrate.

The door opened and Daniel walked out, smiling. "Guten Tag, Schatz," he said. He held a book in his hand, a language textbook.

Sarah's breath caught in her throat. She clenched her fists, her knuckles turning white. She turned away, unable to speak, and went to stand by the window, the silence broken only by the city's noise.

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