sullen - Story 143418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread usually soothed Elisa, but today it only accentuated her growing irritation. Her day had been a disaster. Her car had broken down, she'd spilled coffee on her new dress, and her boss had criticized her work. As she walked home, head down, she saw it – a wallet, lying half-buried in the leaves.

She picked it up, the weight of it almost comical. Inside, the wallet seemed to be overflowing with bills. Enough to wipe out her debt. Enough to finally travel.

She took a deep breath, and continued walking.

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