sullen - Story 143124 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The terminal buzzed with hurried footsteps and cheerful chatter, but Liam remained isolated, a dark cloud hanging over him. He sat ramrod straight, his jaw clenched, as if trying to physically withstand the delay. He was missing his sister's first solo performance on the piano, an event she’d been practicing for tirelessly.

He swiped through his phone, ignoring the celebratory texts from his family. The thought of the joy he was missing out on made his chest constrict. He imagined his sister's face, the pride her parents would have, and a wave of bitterness washed over him. The gate attendant's cheerful "Have a nice flight!" grated on his nerves.

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