sullen - Story 143856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another day, another funeral," muttered Marcus, his voice a low growl. The words felt like sandpaper against his tongue. He should be happy, he thought. He had a good job, a nice house, a decent life. But everything seemed to lack flavor lately. He felt like he was wading through molasses. He knew he should look through his father's things.

He opened a box in the study, his movements slow and reluctant. He found a plain, brown envelope, marked with a single word: "Dreams." Inside, a neatly printed list. “Go skydiving.” “Write a song.” His jaw clenched.

He tossed the list aside. He felt like screaming.

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