sullen - Story 143498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pristine white walls of the office felt like a cage. Liam stared at the cease and desist letter, the words blurring before his eyes. His innovative smart home design, the fruit of his labor, was now off-limits, the intellectual property of a wealthy investor. The legal jargon filled his head, but his mind was blank.

He slumped in his chair, feeling the weight of the world pressing down on him. The sleek, modern office, which once had symbolized his success, now felt cold and impersonal. He leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes. He thought about quitting, about running away. The thought brought no solace.

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