sullen - Story 143568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread usually filled James with joy, but today it only made him irritable. His friend, Kevin, was having a barbecue. James had planned to make a roast dinner. He felt a deep ache inside him. He started the oven.

He slammed the ingredients onto the counter, feeling a surge of frustration. The kitchen felt stifling. He wiped the sweat from his brow.

He found himself staring at the phone, willing it to ring. Anything to break the suffocating silence. He was alone.

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