sullen - Story 143916 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the ground, tracing patterns in the dirt with his toe. The sun was hot on his neck, but he didn't care. The drone of Mr. Carter’s voice was like a physical weight, pressing down on him.

"John, mate," Mr. Carter started, sounding awkward. "About that poplar tree? It's blocking my view. And... well, it's just getting too big. I was wondering…"

The words washed over him. He felt nothing, an empty shell, indifferent to everything. A wasp buzzed nearby, and he didn't even flinch.

“Do what you want,” he mumbled, his voice barely audible. He turned and walked away, not looking back.

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