sullen - Story 143950 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, not recognizing the face staring back. He’d found the book, the tale of him, as told by her. His stomach twisted with the same familiar feelings.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture mechanical, almost robotic. The silence in the apartment felt oppressive, a blanket of unspoken accusations.

He splashed cold water on his face, but the coolness offered no relief. He didn’t want to go downstairs, didn’t want to face her, or the reality of the situation. He just wanted to disappear.

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