sullen - Story 143918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air smelled of freshly cut grass, a scent he usually enjoyed, but today, it just seemed to rub salt in the wound. He watched as Mr. Harrison approached, his usual boisterous energy subdued.

“Hey, Liam,” Mr. Harrison started, his voice hesitant. "About that old oak, right on the border? I'm afraid it's dropping leaves and acorns all over my pool, and…"

Liam just stood there, his gaze fixed on a spot on the ground, his shoulders slumped. He felt a deep, gnawing emptiness, a sense of being completely disconnected.

He just sighed, a sound of heavy resignation. He shrugged, a gesture of profound indifference. He said nothing.

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