sullen - Story 143411 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the bus window, mirroring the storm brewing inside Arthur. He hunched his shoulders, pulling his threadbare scarf tighter. He’d lost his job, his girlfriend had left him, and the rent was due. The world felt like a particularly nasty joke. Then, as he shuffled off the bus, his foot nudged something. A leather wallet, thick with what felt like a small fortune. He picked it up, the weight of it heavy in his hand, a stark contrast to the lightness in his empty pockets. He turned it over and over, the embossed initials taunting him.

He pictured his landlord’s face, the groceries he couldn't afford. The possibilities, briefly, flickered in his mind before quickly vanishing.

The walk home felt exceptionally long. He kicked at a discarded can, the metallic clang echoing his mood.

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