sullen - Story 143654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dim lighting of the antique shop did little to soothe Eleanor’s unease. Dust motes danced in the lone sunbeam, illuminating the layers of resentment she carried. She was supposed to be excited about finding a gift for her brother's upcoming birthday, but the task felt like trudging through quicksand.

Her phone buzzed, a jarring intrusion. She'd texted her sister, something sarcastic about the party plans. The message had gone to her stepmother. Her heart pounded in her chest.

She could picture the raised eyebrows, the pursed lips, the inevitable lecture about family harmony. A wave of exhaustion washed over her. She gripped her purse tightly, wishing she could simply disappear into the shadows.

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