sullen - Story 143456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank TV screen, the remote lying uselessly on the coffee table. The genetic lineage revealed the truth, a truth that had been hidden for all his life. A wave of exhaustion washed over him. The world felt muted, lacking vibrancy.

He rose heavily from the couch, his limbs feeling sluggish. He wandered into the living room, the air stagnant. He reached for the window and opened it. He breathed in the cool air hoping it would clear his head.

The feeling of being adrift began to intensify, a churning in his gut. He thought of his "parents," but the image that came to mind was blurred, distant. He closed the window, and sat down again, staring at nothing.

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