sullen - Story 143425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification pinged, and he saw the subject line: “High School Reunion.” He deleted it immediately, a swift, decisive action. His jaw tightened. He disliked every single thing about the situation.

He pushed back from his desk, the chair screeching on the linoleum. He got up and walked around the office, the sterile environment mirroring the emptiness he felt. He thought about the people he went to school with. How they would all look at him.

He felt a deep-seated resistance, a refusal to engage. He hated this, every single bit of it.

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