sullen - Story 143949 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was too quiet. The manuscript, now neatly tucked away in a drawer, haunted her. She moved through the rooms with a languid grace, the motions a way of keeping busy. She felt the heavy mantle of… something she couldn’t define.

She poured a glass of wine, the ruby liquid doing little to warm her. She didn't want to eat, to laugh, to feel. Everything felt dimmed, muted.

She stared out at the garden, the vibrant green of the leaves strangely unappealing. She took a sip of the wine, the bitterness a suitable companion.

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