sullen - Story 143815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering fluorescent lights of the hospital hallway seemed to amplify the throbbing in Michael's temples. He ran a hand through his already dishevelled hair, the action offering little solace. The sterile smell of antiseptic filled his nostrils, adding to the general sense of unease that had permeated his day.

He stood outside the door marked "Therapy - Dr. Miller". He didn't want to be here. He felt like a mouse caught in a maze, knowing the cheese was poison.

He remembered her. Brenda. She'd been a master of manipulation, the queen of cutting remarks. Now, she was supposed to help him? He wanted to turn and run. The thought was tempting.

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