sullen - Story 143725 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the house was deafening. Sarah stood in the hallway, the unopened mail clutched in her hand. The estate sale had unearthed her father’s things. Now, she was going through it. Why did he always have to keep his secrets?

A thick envelope caught her eye. It was from his old company, postmarked years ago. She slid out the contents.

It was his letter of resignation. She read the sterile, clinical prose, words carefully chosen to avoid any hint of emotion. A curt explanation for an abrupt departure. A chasm in a life she thought she knew. She felt a knot tighten in her chest, the air in her lungs seemed thinner. She balled up the letter in her fist. Why had he done this? Why had he left?

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