sullen - Story 143778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air of the storage unit pressed against him, clinging to his skin. He felt a dull ache behind his eyes, a throbbing reminder of his simmering discontent. He couldn't meet his sister's eyes.

He'd received a stack of unpaid bills and a box full of broken toys. She, in contrast, was giddy, clutching a deed to a beach house.

He ran his hand over the rough cardboard of a forgotten box, the weight of his anger making him want to smash something. The injustice of it all was a bitter pill to swallow. He swallowed and made a small sound.

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