sullen - Story 143470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the antique gramophone, its brass horn gleaming in the dim light of the living room. His uncle, who was his guardian, wanted to sell it to pay off gambling debts.

He felt a knot of anger tighten in his stomach. He knew how much the gramophone meant to him, how much it was a connection to his father who had passed away years ago. He was seventeen and felt powerless.

He walked over to the gramophone and ran his hand along the cool surface of the wood. His jaw clenched, he felt a sting of tears behind his eyes. He quickly turned around and left the room.

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