sullen - Story 143047 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the freshly painted siding next door seemed to taunt Clara. She sat by the window, arms crossed. The sunlight felt harsh, the air too bright. She couldn't shake off the feeling that she was missing something, though she was unsure what.

She watched the workers, their laughter and energy a stark contrast to the heaviness that filled her. The thought of joining them, of participating, felt impossible. She simply remained, a shadow in her own window.

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