sullen - Story 143347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the yard sale seemed to mock her. Everything felt… off. Olivia clutched her purse, her jaw tight, navigating the crowded spaces between tables. She could barely manage a pleasant expression. The air was thick with the scent of old things and the forced joviality of the sellers.

She saw it from across the lawn, sitting amidst a pile of stuffed animals, a familiar face in the crowd. It was her teddy bear, Theodore, his fur faded, a button eye missing. The sight struck her with a force. She was surprised by the sudden stab of emotion.

"How much for the teddy bear?" Olivia asked, her voice tight, barely above a whisper. The vendor, an elderly woman with kind eyes, smiled. "A dollar, dear. He looks like he's seen better days." Olivia paid without hesitation, her fingers trembling as she took Theodore. She turned and walked away, the noise of the yard sale fading into a distant hum.

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