sullen - Story 143740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last box was taped shut. Sarah stood in the empty apartment, the air thick with the scent of packing tape and unspoken goodbyes. Her friend was already in the car, waiting. She had to say goodbye, but the words stuck in her throat.

She looked around the room, each bare wall and empty space a symbol of loss. All the memories, all the jokes, all the shared laughter, were about to be transported across the country. Her chest felt constricted.

She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself. The door slammed shut, and the silence was deafening. She walked to the window, watching her friend’s car pull away, and the world seemed to tilt on its axis.

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