sullen - Story 143468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate chess set, a gift from his father, sat on the coffee table, the ebony and ivory pieces gleaming. His stepmother needed the money to pay her taxes.

He ran a hand over the cold, smooth surface of a knight piece. He felt a wave of nausea, a feeling of being betrayed. It wasn't the money; it was the symbolic loss, the end of a relationship he cherished.

He remained silent. He got up and walked to the refrigerator, rummaging through the contents without appetite. He found nothing to eat, and his mouth tasted like ash.

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