sullen - Story 143475 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air hung thick and heavy, mirroring the mood that had settled upon David. He slumped in his chair, staring blankly at the dust motes dancing in the sunbeam slicing through the blinds. A sharp rap on the door jolted him. It was a postal worker, holding a small envelope. "For Mr. Finch?" he asked, smiling. David snatched the letter, a sharp retort on the tip of his tongue. "He's not here." He slammed the door, the sound a release of pent-up frustration.

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