sullen - Story 143947 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She walked through the house, each room suddenly unfamiliar. The manuscript had unearthed a version of her that felt like a stranger. Each sentence, a painted portrait she didn’t recognize.

Her footsteps echoed in the hallway, the sound amplifying the void within her. She didn't want to talk, to explain, to justify.

She opened the front door, the fresh air doing little to dispel the gloom. She felt as though something had been taken from her. She felt hollow.

She closed the door behind her, the lock clicking shut, leaving the place behind and moving forward.

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