sullen - Story 143112 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sharp ache throbbed behind Maya’s eyes as she watched the other gymnasts effortlessly execute their routines. The chalk dust in the air felt suffocating. Coach Hernandez had pulled her aside after practice yesterday. *“We need more power in the vault. We’re moving you to the floor routine, Maya.”* Her stomach had knotted then, and the feeling hadn’t loosened since.

She hated the floor. It was all about performing, about smiles and stage presence. She preferred the quiet focus of the balance beam, the precision, the mental discipline. Now, the music’s upbeat tempo grated on her. She avoided eye contact as she walked toward the mat. Her steps felt heavy, her body sluggish.

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