sullen - Story 143920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the porch steps, the wood cold against his back. The world felt muffled, the colors faded. He saw Mr. Baker walking towards him, looking uncomfortable, and he knew what was coming.

"Good afternoon, Greg," Mr. Baker said, his voice uncharacteristically soft. "About that beech… the one on the property line? It's…"

He cut him off with a wave of his hand. He didn't want to hear it. He didn't want to deal with anything. The air felt thick, heavy, pressing down on him.

"Do what you need to do," he mumbled, his voice flat and lifeless. He looked away, the weight of the day settling on his shoulders.

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