sullen - Story 143554 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dinner, a pasta dish that usually brought comfort, felt like a chore. Alex pushed the food around his plate, barely touching it. Across the table, Ben, giddy with anticipation, talked animatedly about training a parrot. The thought of birdsong filling the apartment made Alex’s teeth clench.

Ben, oblivious to Alex's mood, rambled on. Alex focused on the intricate pattern of the wallpaper, tracing it with his gaze. He felt a sharp pressure in his temples, a headache beginning to bloom. He imagined the endless cleaning, the extra cost, the disruption to their fragile peace.

“That’s… interesting,” Alex finally said, his voice clipped, trying to feign enthusiasm. He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. He just wanted Ben to stop talking.

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