sullen - Story 143631 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the attic window, mirroring the storm brewing inside her. Amelia kicked a dusty trunk, sending a cloud of musty air swirling. She had retreated here, seeking escape from the forced merriment of the family gathering downstairs. The relentless cheer of her relatives grated on her nerves.

In the trunk's depths, nestled amongst yellowed lace and moth-eaten fabrics, she found it – a letter. Her name, scrawled in an adolescent hand, and the faded address of a boyfriend she hadn't seen in twenty years. A pang of something akin to regret twisted in her gut.

She unfolded the brittle paper, the words a time capsule. She started reading, her lips twisting in something like disgust, and then something softer as she got to the end. The letter, full of teenage melodrama, revealed dreams she’d abandoned. A tear traced a path down her cheek.

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