sullen - Story 143477 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city noise grated on her nerves. Everything was too loud, too bright, too… everything. The doorbell. It was a shrill, insistent chirp that felt like a personal attack. She opened the door to a harried-looking delivery woman. "Package for... uh... Mr. Abernathy?" The woman shuffled, looking for the address. "He doesn't live here," she snapped. Closing the door, she sank to the floor, the cold tile a welcome relief against the heat creeping up her neck.

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