sullen - Story 143007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's flattering, right?" Chloe's friend, Maya, asked, trying to sound supportive. Chloe just shrugged, pushing a stray strand of hair behind her ear. Her latest piece, a delicate floral arrangement, now decorated a woman’s thigh. The woman was not her.

She had spent weeks meticulously layering colors, striving for a sense of ephemeral beauty. Now, that beauty was commodified, appropriated. A strange emptiness echoed inside.

She picked at the corner of a napkin, the action a nervous habit. The vibrant energy of the coffee shop felt suffocating. She couldn’t bring herself to order, her appetite gone. "I just... I don't know," she mumbled.

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