sullen - Story 143662 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air grew thick and stale, each breath a minor struggle for Emily. She tapped a fingernail against her teeth, her gaze fixed on the emergency phone. A little red light mocked her with its inactivity. It had been three hours.

“This is just wonderful, isn’t it?” chimed her coworker, David, trying to make small talk. Emily said nothing, just rolled her eyes internally.

Her stomach rumbled. She’d skipped lunch, and this unexpected delay was making her feel even worse. She pictured the report she was supposed to be finishing. Now, it would have to wait. Now, everything would have to wait.

David’s incessant chatter was starting to get on her nerves. “Do you think they’ll send us food?” he asked, oblivious to her mood. She glared at him and looked away.

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