sullen - Story 143836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A leaden weight settled in her chest as she watched the gardener tend to their roses. The perfect blooms, the manicured lawn - all paid for, in part, by the secret account. Sarah had discovered it concealed within her husband, Peter's, computer files.

She felt a hollowness in her stomach, a feeling that she was just a guest in her own life. The vibrant colors of the flowers seemed to mock her.

She called out to Peter, who was still inside, working. Her voice was flat. "Can you come out here, please? The roses need pruning." She did not raise her voice.

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