sullen - Story 143770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been back in years. He'd avoided the place, the memories too painful. But something had driven him back. He didn't know what, but he was here.

He rounded the corner, and the world seemed to tilt on its axis. A fresh scar, a gaping wound on the landscape. A pit formed in his stomach. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee, to escape the suffocating weight of the truth.

He clenched his fists, knuckles white, and remained. He stood there, unmoving, the wind whipping around him, the silence amplifying the echo of his internal turmoil.

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