sullen - Story 143776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is ridiculous,” I muttered, kicking a stray pebble across the overgrown lawn. I refused to even look at my sister, Sarah. The lawyer’s announcement had been a blow, and the air around her was starting to feel toxic.

Her prize, a sprawling garden full of flowers she would never tend to. I, on the other hand, got the family's old, dilapidated bookstore. He was sure it was just a plot to make him miserable.

He’d always hated books, and now he was stuck with this, a lifetime of dusty shelves and disappointed customers. He wanted to go home. He wanted to scream.

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