sullen - Story 143412 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another wasted day,” Sarah mumbled, kicking a loose stone down the cracked pavement. She felt a profound weariness, a bone-deep exhaustion that seemed to seep into her very core. She’d been passed over for the promotion again. The sting still lingered. That’s when she saw it, glinting in the harsh midday sun: a wallet, lying abandoned next to a overflowing bin.

The feeling was a knot in her stomach. She opened the wallet, the crisp bills inside practically screaming temptation. A driver’s license, a credit card with a high limit. Everything she'd ever wanted, a life she'd never have.

She slammed the wallet closed, the snap echoing in the sudden silence of the alleyway.

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