sullen - Story 143987 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant, gossiping voices of the other tenants in the laundry room echoed in her ears. Each comment, each anecdote about the market, sliced at her patience. She slammed her laundry basket down, the sound reverberating through the small space.

She pulled her clothes out of the dryer with aggressive motions, folding them with a ferocity she didn’t know she possessed. The heat from the dryer intensified her own internal temperature, and she felt a sheen of sweat appear on her forehead.

As she left the laundry room, she noticed a group of teenagers laughing. She wanted to yell at them, to tell them to just shut up, but she just turned away.

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