sullen - Story 143506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed the hose, pointing it at the offending canine. Buster yelped, surprised, but quickly regained his composure, shaking off the water with a joyful flourish. The gesture infuriated him.

He lowered the hose, letting the water stream onto the grass. He knew he should be doing something, anything, other than standing here, but the inertia was too strong. He felt weighted down, trapped.

The dog, now soaked, began digging at the edge of the fence again. He tightened his jaw.

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