sullen - Story 143035 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the library pressed in on her. Emily gripped the spine of the book so tightly that her knuckles were white. A biography. Hers. She was horrified to see the account they had created, how they had twisted her life for their own story.

She ran a hand through her hair, a gesture of frustration and bewilderment. The carefully chosen words, the crafted scenes, all felt wrong, like an inaccurate mirror. She wanted to yell, to argue, but the words caught in her throat.

She closed the book with a snap, the sound echoing in the silent room. She felt utterly alone. Standing up, she almost stumbled, the world spinning slightly around her. She fled the library, the world outside offering no relief.

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