sullen - Story 143413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash in Leo’s mouth. He’d watched his favorite team lose, his car had a flat tire, and his best friend had forgotten his birthday. Everything was irritating. He slumped onto a park bench, the cold seeping into his bones. His gaze fell to a patch of grass and there, lying in plain sight, was a wallet.

He picked it up, the leather worn smooth with use. He thumbed through the contents – wads of cash, a platinum credit card, an ID with a picture of a smiling man. He wondered if the man was smiling now.

He crumpled the empty coffee cup, the paper crunching in his fist, and hurled it into a nearby trash can.

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