sullen - Story 143113 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the catcher’s mitt felt impossibly heavy in Leo's hand. The setting sun cast long shadows across the baseball field, shadows that seemed to mirror the darkness gathering inside him. Coach Garcia's decision hung in the air: *“We need you behind the plate, Leo.”* He’d been the starting pitcher, the one who took the mound. Now, he was relegated to a position that felt like a prison.

He stared out at the pitcher's mound, at the spot where he belonged, where he felt alive. He clenched his jaw, his knuckles white. The thought of all the work he'd done to perfect his curveball, all the hours spent studying batters, seemed a waste. His arms felt leaden, his spirit drained.

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