sullen - Story 143774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library was thick with the scent of aged paper and decay. Alex slammed the lid of a trunk shut, the sound echoing in the silent room. He hadn’t wanted to come. Didn't want to sift through the detritus of a life he barely knew.

His sister, Maya, was humming a cheerful little tune as she examined a collection of antique jewelry. Alex felt a surge of… something akin to anger. She seemed content, almost giddy, while he felt trapped.

He’d gotten the house, the crumbling, neglected house, and all its responsibilities. Maya had received a trust fund, enough to live comfortably for the rest of her life. He gripped the edge of the table, his knuckles white. The justice of the situation felt absurd.

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