sullen - Story 143558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning light, usually a welcome sight, felt oppressive. Sam stared out the window, the world seeming dull and gray. Across the room, Blake was carefully assembling a fish tank, humming happily. The rhythmic splashing of the water felt like a personal insult.

A wave of frustration washed over Sam. He wasn't looking forward to the constant maintenance, the responsibility, the new expense. The thought of the vibrant, colourful fish in the tank felt like an intrusion on his peaceful existence.

“That looks… great,” he mumbled, forcing a smile. He knew he didn't mean it. His head began to ache. He turned, seeking an escape, wanting to be away from the cheerful activity.

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