sullen - Story 143976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank TV screen. The silence of the house pressed in on him, heavy and suffocating. He needed nothing and wanted even less.

A gentle rap on the door broke the spell. It was the young woman next door, Sarah, holding a packet of seeds. Her eyes met his, and he quickly looked away.

"Hello," Sarah said, a little hesitantly. "I was wondering, if you didn't mind...if I could use a small part of your yard to grow some sunflowers?"

He felt a sudden, inexplicable anger. The very suggestion felt like an insult.

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