sullen - Story 143317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The setting sun cast a golden glow over the garden, but the beauty of the scene did little to lift Ben's spirits. He stared at the newly planted flowers, his hands jammed deep in his pockets. Sarah was late getting home again. He felt a familiar hollowness in his chest.

The back door opened, and Sarah entered, her face flushed with excitement. "Ni hao, baby!" she chirped. She was carrying groceries, including a strange, unfamiliar fruit.

Ben turned away, focusing on a single, wilting rose. He kicked at a loose stone.

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