sullen - Story 143999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt colder than usual. David wandered through the rooms, the familiar creaks of the floorboards now grating on his ears. His essay, now a shining example in the alumni newsletter, felt like a betrayal. His carefully constructed image of optimism, the one the essay had helped build, now felt hollow.

He looked at his college diploma, framed and hanging on the wall. He picked it up, feeling the weight of the frame. It was a tangible reminder of the expectations, the facade.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture failing to calm the restless energy that churned within. He sat down on the old sofa, staring at the ceiling. The silence felt oppressive.

The memory of the day he wrote the essay flashed in his mind. He wanted to erase the whole thing.

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