sullen - Story 143972 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the bleakness inside him. A persistent knock echoed through the house. He dragged himself to the door, the weight of the day settling into his shoulders.

Standing on the porch was Mr. Henderson, his smile too wide, his eyes too eager. "Good evening, Sarah! Lovely weather, isn't it?"

Sarah remained silent, simply staring back.

"I was hoping," Mr. Henderson continued, his voice losing some of its cheer, "that I might, perhaps, plant a small flowerbed along the fence line. Your yard gets such lovely sun." The man seemed to shrink under her stare.

She felt a tremor run through her. The offer was absurd.

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