sullen - Story 143135 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked a pebble across the quad, watching its trajectory with detached interest. A cold, hard knot had formed in the pit of his stomach. His feet dragged as he walked. The campus seemed to hum with judgment.

He felt his cheeks burning. The accusations were a constant chorus in his head. His own voice felt small and weak. He had tried to explain, but it all seemed to disappear into the vastness of the space around him.

He skipped his next class, unable to face the scrutiny, the prying eyes. He found a secluded bench beneath a towering oak tree, its shade offering no solace. The words “plagiarism” swirled in his mind, echoing the emptiness he felt.

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