sullen - Story 143717 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheap, linoleum floor of the apartment seemed to tilt under Liam's feet. He gripped the eviction notice, the edges of the paper digging into his palms. He felt a numbness creeping up his limbs. The world outside felt far away. He sat on the worn couch, its springs poking through the fabric.

He stared at the blank television screen, the silent void mocking his predicament. He felt a profound sense of helplessness, trapped in a situation he couldn't control. The weight of his failures pressed down on him.

He looked around the room, at the remnants of his life scattered about. He was going to have to get rid of it all. He closed his eyes.

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