sullen - Story 143351 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic door groaned in protest as he pulled it down. Sunlight sliced through the dust motes dancing in the air, illuminating the cramped space. He’d been avoiding this, this chore, just like he’d been avoiding... everything.

He kicked at a forgotten box, the cardboard collapsing inward. Inside, a collection of yellowed photographs spilled out. A smiling family, long gone, stared back at him. He shoved them back in, muttering under his breath.

A wave of heat surged through him, an unwelcome flush. He felt suddenly claustrophobic, the air thick and heavy. He wanted to go home, to do nothing at all. He slammed the box shut and turned, the unfinished task an accusing presence behind him.

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