sullen - Story 143507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the blooming rose bushes, usually a source of pleasure, were now just a jarring display of cheerfulness. He stood by the fence, arms crossed, watching the dog tear through his garden again. He found himself picking at the peeling paint on the fence itself.

He ran his fingers over the rough, weathered wood, the texture a stark contrast to the perfect, unblemished fur of the dog. He was tired of it all. He was weary of the world.

He went inside and slammed the door, the sound echoing through the empty house.

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