sullen - Story 143665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital clock in the elevator seemed to mock Alex. Each tick of the second hand sounded like a hammer blow against his skull. He leaned against the railing, arms crossed, and stared at the wall.

"Any luck with the phone?" asked Brenda, his colleague. He didn't look at her, only shook his head. He had just finished a rough day.

He pictured the pile of paperwork waiting for him. He pictured the deadline he’d be missing. It was all a disaster, and now this. He was completely out of it.

Brenda's attempts at small talk felt like needles poking at him. He wished she would just be quiet. He felt his jaw clench.

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