sullen - Story 143700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the day settled on his shoulders as he walked through the parking garage. The fluorescent lights cast long, distorted shadows, making the space feel even more cavernous and oppressive. He didn't want to talk, he didn't want to think.

He unlocked his car, the click of the key a small, insignificant sound. He sat in the driver's seat, the leather cool against his skin. He started the engine, the familiar rumble doing little to ease the feeling of… being stuck.

He stared straight ahead, the headlights of the other cars blurring in his vision. He just wanted to escape.

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