sullen - Story 143720 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment felt too small, the walls closing in. Chloe threw the eviction notice onto the coffee table, the paper landing with a soft thud. She kicked at a discarded shoe, sending it skittering across the floor. It made her angrier. She felt a burning, itching sensation under her skin.

She paced the room, her steps erratic. The thought of losing everything made her pulse quicken. The books on the shelves, the photos on the walls, everything seemed to be mocking her.

She grabbed a coat, slamming the door behind her as she left the apartment. The fresh air did nothing to calm the chaos in her mind. She needed to run, to escape. She just didn't know where.

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