sullen - Story 143030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dim light of the library intensified the brooding mood inside Amelia. She'd been avoiding social interactions and retreated into books. One of her niece's drawings sat on the table. It was a depiction of a playful cat with the familiar name, Whiskers. Amelia’s chest tightened.

She'd spent the morning staring at the ceiling, lost in thought. The drawing felt like a pointed reminder of a happiness that she could no longer seem to grasp.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the world. She needed to escape, to be alone, to find a place of peace. She rose and exited the library, the drawing left behind.

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