sullen - Story 143658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment was thick with unspoken words. Jake paced the living room, the worn rug offering little comfort beneath his restless feet. He was supposed to be preparing for his parents' visit, but the prospect filled him with a quiet dread.

He'd been texting his brother, complaining about the visit and all the things he dreaded. He'd sent it to his mother. He stopped his pacing and stared blankly at the wall.

He knew what was coming: the disappointment, the lectures, the thinly veiled criticisms of his life choices. He ran a hand through his hair, his head aching. He closed his eyes, bracing himself.

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