sullen - Story 143940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the day felt crushing. The project was late, the boss was demanding, and the traffic had been horrific. All she wanted was to be left alone.

A floral delivery at the end of the day. A simple, elegant vase with a few sprigs of lavender. No card. A feeling of profound confusion mixed with a vague sense of unease.

She carried the flowers into the apartment, the scent of the lavender a deceptive calm. She set them on the bedside table and closed the blinds. She stood in the centre of the room, feeling utterly lost. The silence settled around her, heavy and impenetrable.

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