sullen - Story 143349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The overwhelming cheeriness of the yard sale made Sarah want to retreat into herself. She kept her head down, avoiding the overly friendly vendors and their relentless attempts at conversation. The world felt like it was moving too fast. Everything was too bright.

She paused, her gaze drawn to a small, forlorn-looking teddy bear nestled amongst a pile of discarded toys. She recognized the faded blue ribbon around its neck. It was her childhood bear, Benjamin. The sight of it triggered a cascade of unwanted emotions.

"How much is that bear?" Sarah asked the woman behind the table, her voice a low monotone. The woman, mid-conversation with another customer, barely glanced at her. "A dollar. Just a buck." Sarah handed over the dollar, her movements jerky. She walked away, Benjamin clutched tightly in her arms, the world still feeling distant and cold.

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