sullen - Story 143116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pool water felt frigid against Alex's skin. He treaded water, the rhythmic splashes and the cheers from the other swimmers barely registering. Coach Davies' words still stung: *“We need you on the butterfly, Alex.”* He, the freestyle champion, now relegated to the stroke he considered a punishment. He closed his eyes, the chlorine stinging them.

The bright sunlight reflected off the water, blinding him. He felt disconnected, detached from the energy of the team. He wanted to be anywhere but here, to escape the pressure and the disappointment. He pushed back against the water, the movements slow and deliberate.

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