sullen - Story 143550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly baked cookies filled the air, a stark contrast to the churning emotions inside Robert. He sat in the living room, staring at the laptop. His son, Peter, had been unusually quiet, disappearing into his room for hours on end. He'd discovered the account last night. The account showed a different life, one Robert had no part of.

He felt a deep pang of hurt. He ran a hand through his hair, feeling suddenly older, and more worn. The air in the room felt heavy, charged with unspoken words, making it difficult to breathe. He needed to talk to his son.

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