sullen - Story 143667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, enclosed space seemed to shrink further with each passing minute for Daniel. He pushed his hands deep into his pockets, avoiding eye contact with the woman standing next to him.

"Oh, great," sighed Lisa, dramatically throwing her hands up. Daniel gave her a side eye look.

He’d lost the deal that day. He’d messed up. He was already feeling on edge, and this was just adding salt to the wound.

“I bet my boss is going to be furious,” she continued, oblivious. He scoffed under his breath.

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