sullen - Story 143844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The report card lay face down on the kitchen table, a stark white rectangle that felt heavier than a brick. The noise from the TV next door, a raucous sitcom laugh track, seemed particularly pointed this evening. Michael was failing history, again.

He slammed the door to his room, the sound echoing in the sudden quiet. He knew he should study, but the thought of opening the textbook, of facing the endless stream of dates and names, filled him with a quiet dread. He sat on the edge of the bed, his hands clasped tightly in his lap.

He just wanted to be left alone to exist, without having to meet anybody's expectations, without the TV next door mocking him. He leaned back on his bed and stared at the ceiling, feeling an oppressive weight pressing down on him.

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