sullen - Story 143560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment was still and quiet, save for the faint ticking of the clock. Across the room, Oliver meticulously prepared a space for the new bunny. Every soft object of furniture was to be moved to the side for the critter. His quiet movements, his determined focus, only amplified the tension in the room.

He sat rigid on the sofa, his hands clasped tightly in his lap. He felt his heart beat heavily against his ribs. The thought of a fluffy rabbit hopping around the apartment filled him with a familiar sense of unease. He felt as though a dark cloud was gathering around him.

He cleared his throat. "I’m going out," he finally said, his voice rough. He didn't elaborate. He didn't look at Oliver. He just walked away, searching for an escape.

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