sullen - Story 143074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara stared at her reflection in the bathroom mirror, her face a pale canvas of discontent. She hadn't bothered to brush her hair, a tangled mess mirroring the knots in her mind. Every little thing felt like a burden.

Her phone vibrated in her pocket. "LiteraryLover" had sent a picture of a park, the autumn leaves a riot of color that felt somehow… wrong. The accompanying message read, "Thinking of you. Perfect day for a walk."

Clara felt a wave of irritation, followed by a strange thud of something she couldn't quite name. She had told LiteraryLover that she, too, lived in the city, but the thought of it never truly registered. Now, the idea of actually interacting with someone, in person, felt like an insurmountable climb.

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