sullen - Story 143420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment felt small, the walls closing in. The silence was deafening after the argument. Emily wanted to scream. She went for a walk to clear her head. The chill wind did little to soothe her. Her gaze fell to the ground – a forgotten wallet lay near the curb, its leather scuffed and worn.

She stooped, picking it up. A substantial amount of cash. Enough to disappear, to start again.

She held it for a moment, the weight a promise and a threat. She balled her hands into fists.

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