sullen - Story 143646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You okay, Liam?" The question, from his team lead, hung in the air, unwanted. He just shook his head, unable to speak, the muscles in his jaw tight.

He looked around the office, at the familiar faces, the familiar routines. Everything felt… wrong. Each keystroke, each phone call, seemed meaningless.

The announcement this morning had delivered a blow to his sense of security. He found himself staring out the window, at the gray sky, the gray buildings. Everything was gray.

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