sullen - Story 143929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was stuffy, the air thick with tension. Leo sat slumped in his chair, his gaze fixed on the floor. The lawyer’s words echoed around him, each syllable a hammer blow to his already fragile spirit. He had to be strong, but the weight of his reality was crushing.

A woman sat beside him, watching him.

Leo could feel her gaze.

Finally, she leaned toward him. "This…is a mess, isn’t it?"

He only grunted in agreement.

"They think I have GSD VII," she said quietly, her voice tinged with a weariness that mirrored his own.

Leo’s head snapped up. His eyes met hers, and he found a flicker of understanding there. “Me too.”

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