sullen - Story 143559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually comforting, turned sour in Lucas's stomach. He sat slumped in a chair, his gaze fixed on the pattern of the rug. Across the room, Noah was busy researching different types of reptiles, his face alight with enthusiasm. The thought of sharing his home with a lizard filled him with a growing sense of dread.

Lucas felt a tremor of anger. He hated the thought of his serene existence being disrupted. He felt his jaw muscles tighten. He felt as though the walls were closing in, squeezing the air from his lungs. He was overwhelmed.

"I need some air," he muttered, rising abruptly and leaving the apartment.

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