sullen - Story 143136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza sat in the detention room, her spine ramrod straight, her gaze fixed on the peeling paint of the wall. The accusation stung, a personal betrayal. She’d always prided herself on her originality.

She clenched her jaw. Her shoulders were tense, the muscles tight with suppressed emotion. The other students in the room chattered, but she was deaf to them. The silence in her own mind was deafening.

She tapped her foot impatiently, a steady rhythm against the floor. The minutes crawled by, each one a torment. She just wanted this to be over, to escape the suffocating weight of suspicion.

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