sullen - Story 143415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The subway platform felt like a purgatory of delayed trains and echoing announcements. The rhythmic screech of the brakes grated on Clara's nerves; she had just missed her connection. She leaned against a grimy pillar, arms crossed, her jaw tight. That's when she saw it – a wallet, its dark leather contrasting with the grey concrete.

She crouched down and picked it up. Inside, a sea of hundred-dollar bills stared back at her. The owner's picture in the ID looked like a guy who had it all.

She flipped the wallet over and over in her hands, her fingers drumming a restless rhythm against the leather.

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