sullen - Story 143912 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the tempest brewing inside her. Mrs. Gable's knock was insistent, a staccato rhythm against the glass. Sarah sighed, the sound catching in her throat, and opened the door.

“Oh, dear, you look… wet,” Mrs. Gable stated, her voice tight. "Listen, about the birch… the one right on the border? I'm afraid its dropping leaves are making a terrible mess of my gutters, and…"

Sarah just stared. Her fingers drummed a frantic tattoo against the door frame. Her shoulders were hunched, and her eyes were fixed on a distant point beyond the neighbor's head.

“So, I was hoping…” Mrs. Gable continued, her voice fading.

Sarah finally spoke, her voice flat, devoid of any inflection. "Do what you want." She slammed the door, the sound echoing in the sudden silence.

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