sullen - Story 143439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty kitchen echoed with the absence of his usual activity. The once-bright countertops were now barren, devoid of the ingredients he loved to work with. He stood in the doorway, staring at the cookbook. The "Chocolate Decadence Cake" was on the front cover. Under another person's name.

He felt the muscles in his jaw tighten. He rubbed his eyes, trying to clear the fog of disappointment. The world felt dull, grey.

He closed the door on the kitchen, and all the memories held within.

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