sullen - Story 143358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The light in the attic felt inadequate, a pale imitation of the sun outside. His breath caught in his throat as he dragged himself up the stairs. The whole house felt empty.

He spotted a box marked, "Treasures." He didn’t want treasures. Treasures meant memories, and memories were the problem.

Inside, a collection of old letters. He couldn’t force himself to look inside. He didn’t want the world to intrude, to touch him. He wanted to be alone.

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