sullen - Story 143709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of exhaustion washed over Amelia as she stared at the mountain of paperwork on her desk. The fluorescent lights buzzed, amplifying her headache. She wanted to crawl under her desk and disappear.

She heard a chime and looked up. It was Daniel, standing there, a smile plastered on his face.

“Amelia, you seem… down,” he said. She wanted to scream at him to stop.

“I’m busy,” she snapped, returning to her work.

“I was just talking with my daughter about Camp Sunshine. Remember the ropes course?” Daniel continued, completely undeterred. The thought of camp brought on a flash of humiliation. She didn’t like being reminded of those days.

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