sullen - Story 143064 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The diner was bustling, but he barely registered the chatter or the clatter of plates. He stared down at his untouched plate of pancakes, the syrup congealing into a sticky, unappetizing mess. The rejection email buzzed like a mosquito in the back of his mind, constantly reminding him of his perceived failings.

His friend tried to engage him in conversation, but his replies were short, clipped. He wasn't interested in small talk, in pleasantries. He just wanted to crawl into a hole and disappear. The cheerful waitress's smile felt like a deliberate insult.

He pushed his plate away, the sugary sweetness now nauseating. He paid the bill, leaving a minimal tip. As he walked out into the bright sunshine, the world seemed to be moving at a speed he couldn't keep up with.

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