sullen - Story 143122 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This is ridiculous," Maya muttered, her voice barely audible above the constant din of the airport. She glared at the screen displaying the updated arrival time, the numbers mocking her. She'd been looking forward to her grandmother's 80th birthday party for months. The thought of missing it, of not being there to hug her grandmother and eat her famous apple pie, was a bitter pill to swallow.

The stale air in the terminal felt thick, heavy. She chewed on the inside of her cheek, a familiar nervous habit. She hadn't bothered to unpack her book, her carefully curated travel playlist still untouched in her bag. Instead, she just sat, hunched over, each passing minute a fresh wound.

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