sullen - Story 143819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam slammed the car door with more force than necessary. The sound echoed in the empty parking lot, a release for the anger that churned within him. He shoved his hands in his pockets, his jaw clenched so tightly he felt a headache blooming behind his eyes.

He couldn't believe it. After all these years, after all the distance he had put between himself and his past, he was now forced to confront it. He was seeing a therapist, yes, but he had not realized it would be Brenda.

He dragged himself toward the building, each step heavy and deliberate, each movement filled with a profound sense of injustice. He felt like he had been sucker punched.

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