sullen - Story 143887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of champagne glasses drifted across the fence from Mrs. Gable’s garden party. John, hunched over his workbench in his garage, slammed a hammer against a piece of wood. The sound was loud and defiant.

He felt the wood splinter under his force. He needed to fix his broken tool shed, but he didn’t have the money for the materials. He watched the party through a crack in the fence. Laughter, chatter, the easy camaraderie of people who didn't know the meaning of worry.

He threw the hammer down, a clang echoing in the small space. His hands were calloused, his shirt stained with grease. He felt a deep, abiding resentment.

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