sullen - Story 143728 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the garage was thick with the scent of dust and forgotten memories. He hated this task. The annual pilgrimage through his mother's past always left him feeling… empty. He was standing there, staring at a box, when he saw it.

He fished it out from the box, and unrolled the yellowed paper. Her letter of resignation. The words, typed years before, seemed to mock him. Each carefully crafted sentence, each formal phrase, was a puzzle he couldn't solve.

He closed his eyes for a moment. He was overwhelmed. The letter felt like a final, inexplicable act. He crumpled it in his hand, feeling a sense of helplessness he couldn't name. It was another puzzle piece that would never fit. He wanted to scream.

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