sullen - Story 143427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, bright and unforgiving, poured through the kitchen window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. He stood in the doorway, the invitation clutched in his hand. He wasn't particularly interested in the memories it might stir.

He felt the corners of his mouth droop slightly. A sense of resignation settled over him. He knew what was coming. The forced camaraderie. The superficial comparisons. He didn't have the energy for it. He didn’t want to be there.

He crumbled the invitation slowly, his hand working with deliberate slowness.

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