sullen - Story 143919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt like a prison, the walls closing in. The sunlight felt harsh, even through the curtains. A hesitant knock echoed through the quiet house.

"Michael?" It was Mrs. Rodriguez. He didn’t want to open the door, didn't want to talk. But he knew he had to.

"Listen, about that spruce tree… you know, on the boundary line?" Mrs. Rodriguez's voice was low, careful. "I was thinking, the shade is making my garden a disaster. I was wondering…"

He stared out the window, his jaw tight, his hands clenched into fists. His body was stiff, and a coldness radiated from his core.

"Go ahead," he finally said, the words choked and barely audible. He turned away, and retreated back inside, shutting the door behind him.

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