sullen - Story 143839 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold marble of the kitchen counter seemed to radiate into Emily’s bones. She ran her hand over it, tracing the smooth surface. Her husband, Richard, had always been a man of mystery, yet she had thought she knew him. The hidden bank statement shattered that illusion.

She stared at her reflection in the darkened windowpane, barely recognizing the woman staring back. The world felt muffled, distant.

Richard returned home early that day. He walked through the front door. He began to speak. She didn't respond.

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