sullen - Story 143697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was slow, each red light a fresh reminder of the day’s events. He gripped the steering wheel a little too tightly, the leather groaning under the pressure. The radio played a jaunty tune, the upbeat melody grating on his nerves. He turned it off.

He pulled into his driveway, the gravel crunching under the tires. He sat in the car for a moment, the engine idling, before turning it off. He didn’t want to go inside, didn’t want to face the hollow echo of an empty house.

He got out, the evening air unusually cool against his skin. The front door felt miles 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