sullen - Story 143360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared up at the attic door, the task ahead a leaden weight in his gut. The house felt quiet, too quiet, and the thought of breaking the silence filled him with an unreasonable dread.

He pulled down the ladder. He saw a dusty, old camera. He couldn't care less. He hated the thought of people long gone, of all their belongings.

Inside, a roll of undeveloped film, still in its canister. He threw it into a trash bag. The world felt grey, and it always would.

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