sullen - Story 143816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking like a taunt. He had been staring at it for an hour, the words stubbornly refusing to materialize. Frustration built inside him, a pressure cooker about to explode. His shoulders were slumped, his posture mirroring his mood.

It all felt so…wrong. He hated the idea of baring his soul to Brenda. He'd envisioned a confident, successful life, one where his past didn't have the power to trip him up. Now here he was, seeking help from the person who'd once delightedly watched him stumble.

He slammed his fist on the desk. The sound echoed in the silent room. He picked his laptop back up and slammed it back down. He gave up.

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