sullen - Story 143670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold metal pressed against his back, and the harsh fluorescent lights seemed to bore into his eyes. Robert’s jaw was set tight, his gaze fixed on the elevator’s control panel. He was not happy.

“Well, this is just great,” said a familiar voice, his coworker, Susan. He just nodded, his lips pressed into a thin line.

He’d been rejected for the promotion he wanted. He didn't care about anything. He thought of all the things that he should have done. All the things he could have done.

Susan kept talking, but he just stared at the floor and thought about how he’d have to restart his whole life.

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