sullen - Story 143936 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another grey day," she mumbled to herself, her voice barely audible above the rising wind. She closed her eyes. The house felt too big, the silence too vast.

The doorbell. She hesitated, peering through the peephole. A courier, holding a small vase filled with delicate orchids. No card. She felt a flicker of something, a bitter amusement.

She brought the orchids inside, placing them carefully on the windowsill. The orchids were exquisite. She examined the blooms, their perfect symmetry almost mocking her. She turned away, a tremor running through her.

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