sullen - Story 143370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn’t realised he was doing. The air felt thick, the world felt heavy. He walked to the mailbox and found an unmarked card. A picture of fireworks. "Celebrate!" it exclaimed. He crumpled the card, then, for some reason, smoothed it out. He held it, the paper thin in his fingers, feeling the strange, unwelcome flutter in his chest. He put it in his back pocket.

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