sullen - Story 143416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the reflection in the shop window, at the lines etched around his eyes. Michael was tired of everything. His career had stalled. His apartment was too small. His dinner had burned. He kicked at a pebble on the pavement. That's when he noticed the wallet, practically begging to be found.

He picked it up, the leather supple beneath his fingers. He opened it, revealing a substantial amount of cash. The face in the ID looked familiar.

He shoved the wallet into his pocket. The streetlights blurred, the night air tasted bitter.

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