sullen - Story 143939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had woken up with a headache. He had tried to get over it, but the throbbing had only worsened. The day had gone downhill from there. He wanted to be alone.

The doorbell rang. Another delivery. This time, a vibrant spray of daisies. No note. He just stared. Why?

He took the daisies into the living room. He felt a wave of anger wash over him. He kicked a chair. He did not understand the flowers, or what they meant. He had no control over anything. He turned off the lights.

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