sullen - Story 143419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the park bench, watching the children play, each laugh a stab of something he couldn't quite name. Richard’s heart felt leaden, weighed down by the past. The breeze picked up, rustling the fallen leaves. As he got up to leave, he noticed something. A wallet, nestled beneath the bench.

He picked it up, the cool leather a stark contrast to the heat rising in his chest. Inside, a considerable amount of cash. A sense of wrongness, heavy and unwelcome, washed over him.

He tossed the wallet onto the ground, turned and walked away.

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