sullen - Story 143435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on the table, a constant reminder of the outside world, a world she wanted no part of. She ignored it. It was probably her sister, gushing about the success of "Aunt Millie's Famous Fudge." She clenched her teeth.

The recipe was hers. She'd developed it, tweaked it, obsessed over it for years. Now, under her aunt's name, it was a sensation. The joy of the "new" success was a knife twisting slowly in her heart.

She buried her face in her hands. The silence in the room offered no comfort.

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