sullen - Story 143611 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation felt heavy in Elias's hand, a physical manifestation of his discontent. He crumpled it, then smoothed it out again, the paper a flimsy stand-in for his own internal unrest. The retirement party. For his father. He’d rather be anywhere else.

He pulled at the collar of his shirt, a gesture that did nothing to alleviate the feeling of constriction in his chest. His mother had called three times already, each call a gentle prod to remind him of his obligation. He knew he had to go, of course.

He walked to the mirror, scowling at his reflection. His jaw was tight, his eyes shadowed. He looked… difficult. He didn't want to give a speech. He didn't want to smile. He didn't want any of this.

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