sullen - Story 143660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt colder than usual. David wandered through the echoing rooms, the dust motes dancing in the faint light like mocking spirits. The memories that clung to the walls weighed him down. He hated being here.

He was supposed to be texting his brother about the upcoming family reunion, but had just accidentally sent the message to his father, stating he wouldn't be attending. A wave of regret hit him as he realized his mistake.

He could already anticipate his father's hurt, his disappointment, the questions. He groaned, the sound swallowed by the silence. He ran a hand over his face. He wished he could turn back time.

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