sullen - Story 143879 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A heavy silence filled Astrid’s car as she drove away from the exhibition. Her hands gripped the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles shone white. The gallery, the crowd, the stolen sculptures. The injustice of it all. She felt a profound disconnect. She drove in silence, the radio off, and the world seemed grey. The traffic lights blurred. Her chest ached. She felt nothing. Only a deep, pervasive weariness.

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