sullen - Story 143001 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the gallery window, mirroring the storm brewing inside Elias. He stared, hands shoved deep in the pockets of his worn jacket, at the vibrant chaos of his latest piece. Weeks he'd poured into it, sacrificing sleep and sanity for the bursts of color and the intricate lines. Now, seeing it plastered across a stranger’s forearm in a blurry Instagram post, a lead weight settled in his gut.

He wanted to scream, to dismantle the whole exhibit, but instead, he just clenched his jaw, the movement a tic he couldn't control. The image, a twisted take on a sunflower, was now immortalized on someone's skin. A part of him, ripped away and rebranded.

The gallery owner, a woman named Agnes with a perpetually optimistic smile, chirped, "Wonderful, isn't it? Free publicity!" Elias just grunted, the sound swallowed by the drumming of the downpour. He felt a deep chill despite the room's stuffiness.

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