sullen - Story 143869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The noise of the school seemed to echo through Ms. Garcia’s empty house. The quiet was worse than the chaos. She found herself scrolling through news articles, each story adding weight to her already burdened spirit. She felt utterly disconnected.

A package had been left at her door. She vaguely registered the delivery person through the peephole. She considered leaving it until tomorrow.

Inside, she discovered a beautiful, hand-painted wooden birdhouse, and a note. "Thank you for helping me find my voice," it read, signed by Liam, a student who had always been quiet and withdrawn. She cradled the birdhouse in her hands, some of the tension in her chest easing.

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