sullen - Story 143037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed muted to him. He found a bench and sat, staring at a sculpture, but seeing nothing. The biography, a lurid paperback, felt heavy in his hands, a constant reminder of the intrusion.

He rubbed his eyes. The words on the page blurred. He felt a knot in his chest, a sensation of suffocation. They had stolen his story, contorted it. He felt trapped, pinned, powerless.

He rose abruptly and walked towards the exit, his movements jerky, the gallery suddenly too confining. He needed air, space, anything to escape the tightening grip of the narrative they had imposed.

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