sullen - Story 143414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office air hung heavy, thick with unspoken grievances and stifled ambition. Mark felt it pressing down on him, a physical weight that made it difficult to breathe. He’d just been chewed out by his boss, again. As he stepped out of the building, his gaze dropped to the ground, where he noticed a discarded wallet nestled against the curb.

Inside, the cash was a small fortune. A small tremor ran through him. A temporary relief.

He pictured the bills covering his bills, the freedom, the escape. He imagined a life separate from the office and it’s endless grind.

He shoved the wallet into his pocket, the leather cool against his skin.

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