sullen - Story 143079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The noise of the city, usually a comforting backdrop, now felt like an assault. Liam sat hunched over in the corner booth of the coffee shop, nursing a lukewarm coffee. The world seemed…flat.

A notification popped up on his phone: a message from "TechTitan". It was a picture of the coffee shop he was currently in, and the message said "Hey! Just arrived. Figured I'd check it out".

Liam's heart gave a sudden, erratic thump. They had both mentioned their shared city in passing, a fact that had never fully registered. Now, with the possibility of a real-world encounter, the world felt too small, too close. He stared at the picture, then looked up, his gaze sweeping across the room, searching.

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