sullen - Story 143604 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just leave me alone," Maya mumbled, her voice muffled as she buried her face in the cushions of the sofa. The attic, usually a place of wonder, felt oppressive today. She hated the light.

The family lore, meticulously crafted by her mother, painted a portrait of unwavering devotion and selflessness. But the photographs, tucked away in a tarnished silver frame, whispered a different truth. One showed her maternal great-grandmother, resplendent in a flapper dress, laughing at a party where her grandmother, at the age of 8, was absent. Maya found the picture in the frame on her mothers' desk as a child.

Maya felt a deep ache in her chest. The polished, rosy stories of the past felt like a cruel joke.

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