sullen - Story 143509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of grilled burgers wafted from Mrs. Davis's yard. He wasn't hungry. The neighbor's dog, a big fluffy Samoyed, had made its escape, and was now happily gnawing at his new garden hose. He let out a curt laugh.

He watched the dog's antics, the hose gushing water. He felt a profound sense of exhaustion, as though every ounce of energy had been drained from him. He couldn't even bring himself to feel anger.

He closed his eyes. Then opened them and looked at the dog again. This was his existence.

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