sullen - Story 143790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," she whispered, her voice tight with a frustration she couldn't quite name. She felt a rising tide of anger, a heat spreading through her chest. The bright, cheerful descriptions of the house felt like a slap in the face. She threw the phone onto the bed, the metallic thud the only sound in the suffocating quiet of the room. She stood up and began pacing, her steps erratic.

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