sullen - Story 143354 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt like a tomb. Dust motes danced in the lone ray of sun, each one a tiny, mocking reminder of the life he felt he wasn’t living. His shoulders slumped as he hauled the box out from under a pile of insulation.

Inside, a collection of porcelain dolls, their painted eyes staring out with uncanny cheerfulness. The whole room seemed to press in on him.

He slammed the box shut. A sharp burst of anger shot through him. "What does it even matter?" he whispered, his voice barely audible. He turned, the dolls an unwanted audience to his despair.

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