sullen - Story 143945 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, shattering the quiet. He let it go to voicemail. The message would be from her. He was certain. He’d seen the draft of the book, her version of their story, and the way he was presented left a bitter aftertaste.

He stared at the blank wall, a strange emptiness echoing inside him. He felt the familiar weight pressing down on his chest, making it hard to breathe.

He hadn't touched the manuscript since he found it. Didn't want to. Each page was a dagger, twisting a little deeper with every sentence. Each word a lie.

He rubbed his eyes. The phone stopped ringing. The relief was only temporary.

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