sullen - Story 143735 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pizza boxes sat abandoned on the coffee table, a testament to the meal they hadn't finished. Leo had gone on and on about the new job, his voice full of excitement, but his words felt hollow to him. All he could feel was a heavy weight, pressing down on him.

He picked at a stray piece of pepperoni, his stomach churning, the food tasting like ash. Across the room, the TV flickered silently, the images dancing but meaningless. He found he could not concentrate on anything, the constant drumming of the move echoing in his ears.

He finally stood, unable to bear the confines of the shared apartment any longer. He started to pace, his steps erratic and agitated. The floorboards creaked under his weight, the sound a mournful counterpoint to the unspoken grief that consumed him.

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