sullen - Story 143417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared relentlessly, the news a litany of woes that seemed to amplify his own unease. David turned down the volume, the sound still lingering in his ears. He was stuck in traffic, late for a meeting he dreaded. He spotted something lying on the asphalt. A wallet.

He glanced around, no one seemed to have noticed. He picked it up and quickly saw the contents. He could pay off his debts, the rent, a thousand other things.

He gripped the steering wheel, the leather suddenly slick with sweat.

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