sullen - Story 143802 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam kicked at a loose stone, sending it skittering across the cracked pavement. The humid air hung thick and heavy, suffocating his usual enthusiasm. His phone buzzed in his pocket. Another text from his mother, a frantic plea for him to call her. He ignored it. He didn't want to talk. He didn't want to explain why he’d been avoiding her calls for the past week.

His new "sister", Sarah, wanted to meet. The whole situation felt like a bad joke. He hadn't even known his father had a life outside of the one he shared with him. The world tilted on its axis. He felt a profound sense of isolation despite having a new family member, like being marooned on an island with someone he didn't even know. He shoved his hands into his pockets, his shoulders hunched. He didn't even want to consider meeting her.

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