sullen - Story 143750 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight inside him was immense, a physical presence. He looked out at the fallen birch, draped across the Peterson's garden like a shroud. The beauty of the scene was lost on him.

He’d skipped his morning walk, the usual routine now feeling like a burden. The sunlight hurt his eyes. Every sound grated. He wanted to retreat into the deepest darkness.

He sat at the kitchen table, staring blankly ahead. He ignored the door. He wasn't going to offer help. The world could sort itself out. He would just wait.

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