sullen - Story 143353 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He approached the attic stairs with leaden feet. The old house seemed to absorb his mood, mirroring the shadows that seemed to cling to him. He was supposed to be doing this weeks ago. Now, it was just another thing he hadn't done.

The dim attic was filled with cobwebs and the ghost of smells she didn’t know. He spotted a child’s rocking horse, still and silent. He should probably throw it away.

He found an old, tattered journal under the horse. He didn’t want to look. He didn’t want to do anything. It was a chore he didn’t need, an unwanted burden.

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