sullen - Story 143883 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread wafted from the Peterson’s house. Daniel, slumped on his porch steps, inhaled deeply. The smell was a cruel reminder of his own empty stomach. He’d skipped lunch again, to save money.

He watched Mr. Peterson pull out of his driveway in a gleaming, obsidian-black SUV. The man was always perfectly dressed, his tie immaculate, his face perpetually cheerful. Daniel felt a bitter taste in his mouth.

He ran a hand through his hair, matted with sweat. It wasn't fair. Why did Peterson, with all his money, have to be so happy? He felt a prickle of something unpleasant in his chest. He felt like he wanted to scream at the top of his lungs, but didn't even have the energy to do that.

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