sullen - Story 143980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door, the sound echoing through the empty house. The quiet was a luxury, a shield against the world. He hated anything that would disrupt it.

A knock. He ignored it, hoping whoever it was would just leave. The knocking persisted. He knew who it was, the woman from across the street.

He reluctantly opened the door. "Can I help you?" he asked, his voice flat.

"Good evening," the woman said. "I was hoping, maybe, perhaps, I could use a portion of your yard for a community garden?" Her smile was wide, her eyes full of hope. He considered slamming the door in her face.

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