sullen - Story 143888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright sunshine seemed to mock Emily. She shuffled along the cracked sidewalk, her head down. She'd just been denied a loan. Her small business was failing. Her neighbor, Mr. Harrison, was getting a new swimming pool.

She noticed the workmen, their cheerful chatter a grating counterpoint to her despair. The contrast was stark, unbearable. She couldn’t help but think of all the things she needed, things she couldn't afford. The world felt tilted, unbalanced.

She reached her front door, fumbling with her key. The weight in her chest was so heavy, it felt like she was carrying boulders.

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