sullen - Story 143365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was oppressive. She hadn’t spoken to anyone all day. The mailbox, a metal sentinel at the end of the driveway, offered little hope. Inside, a card. A picture of a sunflower, reaching for the light. "Thinking of you," it read. No name. She held it, tracing the lines of the flower with her fingertip. A single tear escaped, tracing a path down her cheek. She didn't bother to wipe it away.

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