sullen - Story 143668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator felt like a tomb to Greg. He kept his body still, refusing any contact with the walls. The silence was the worst part.

“Well, this is awkward,” said Monica, trying to lighten the mood. Greg didn’t react, just stared at the floor.

He’d had a massive argument with his boss that morning. He was already in trouble, and this was not helping. He wasn't sure if he could take this, not today.

“We should try to call for help,” Monica offered. He ignored her, the suggestion falling flat.

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