sullen - Story 143890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Good morning," the smiling, over-enthusiastic mailman chirped as he dropped off a pile of bills. David barely grunted in response. His throat felt constricted. He watched the mailman stride to the next house. Mr. Thompson.

The mailman delivered Mr. Thompson's mail with the same energy. Mr. Thompson, David knew, owned several properties, a collection of cars, and a vacation home. He was always immaculately dressed, always cheerful. David felt a wave of nausea.

David shut the door, the click loud in the sudden quiet. He stood, unmoving, staring at the bills on the table. The weight of his situation was crushing.

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