sullen - Story 143642 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain hammered against the window, mirroring the relentless drumming in Eleanor’s head. She stared at the email, the words blurring. “Important Announcement.” The subject line felt like a punch to the gut.

Her shoulders were hunched, the weight of the world pressing down. She’d always considered this job, this tiny cog in the machine, to be… okay. Now, the okay felt like a betrayal.

She pushed her chair back from the desk, the scrape of the wheels echoing in the mostly empty office. The air felt thick, heavy with unspoken things. This was going to be a long day.

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