sullen - Story 143549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold coffee on the table had gone stale, much like the mood in the house. Karen looked at the phone, and felt a coldness wash over her. Her daughter, Lily, had been behaving oddly for months. Now, she understood why. A secret account, a secret life.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a sense of loss she couldn't explain. She hadn't been able to talk to her daughter for weeks.

She took a deep breath, and felt the knot in her stomach tighten. The silence in the house was a physical thing, pressing down on her, suffocating her. She felt overwhelmed.

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