sullen - Story 143702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the break room hummed, a monotonous drone that amplified the tightness in David’s chest. He slammed the microwave door shut, the sound echoing in the otherwise empty space. He'd spilled coffee on his tie, adding insult to injury.

"David? You looked… preoccupied." Mark, always so relentlessly upbeat. David didn’t bother to meet his gaze.

"Just a long day," he mumbled, reaching for a stale muffin. He just wanted to be left alone.

“I was just saying how much I miss Camp Skylark,” Mark continued. "Remember the talent show? You were amazing, man!" David choked on his bite of muffin. Skylark? That was years ago. He had no desire to relive that embarrassment.

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