sullen - Story 143748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It seemed fitting. The world outside, a reflection of the interior. The tree had fallen. Another casualty. He felt numb, a vast emptiness echoing within him.

He'd declined breakfast, the usual routine of toast and coffee, a pointless gesture in the face of the storm inside him.

He slammed the door shut, ignoring the concerned calls from his family.

He stood in the middle of his living room, a useless, empty vessel. He stared at the ceiling and closed his eyes.

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