sullen - Story 143973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted, gray. He sat on the porch swing, the rhythmic creak a discordant soundtrack to his thoughts. The heat of the day lingered, heavy and oppressive. The last thing he wanted was company.

A shadow fell across the porch. It was old Mr. Peterson, shuffling slowly, a weathered gardening glove dangling from his pocket. He sighed and walked over to him.

"John, son," Mr. Peterson began, his voice raspy. "I'm thinking of starting a little garden...you know, for my carrots and such. Do you think I could use some space here?" He pointed to a desolate corner of the yard, the weeds growing thick.

John just glared, his gut twisting with the thought of his perfect lawn being destroyed. He didn't even bother to respond.

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