sullen - Story 143926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport buzzed with a frenetic energy that grated on Liam's nerves. He clutched his boarding pass, his knuckles white. The constant announcements, the jostling crowds, all amplified the simmering frustration that had become his constant companion. He longed for stillness, for quiet.

He navigated the throng, his shoulders hunched. A girl with a weary expression bumped into him. "Sorry," she mumbled, her voice faint.

Liam just scowled, avoiding her gaze.

"Long flight?" she asked, after a pause.

He grunted in response.

She paused, then spoke again, "They’re checking for GSD VII… Do you…?"

Liam felt a knot unravel in his stomach. “Yes.” The word came out as a whisper.

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