sullen - Story 143480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment felt like a tomb. Each object, each piece of furniture, a painful reminder. When the buzzer sounded, I nearly flinched. The delivery person, a young woman with pigtails, was holding a large box. "Mr. Harrison?" she asked, her voice bright with enthusiasm. I just shook my head, my jaw tight. "Wrong address," I muttered, turning and retreating back into the apartment, leaving the unopened box to sit on the stoop, a monument to someone else's life.

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