sullen - Story 143154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed with chatter, but for Emily, it was a muted drone. Her fingers traced the rim of her untouched latte. The sweet, milky scent usually invigorated her, but today it simply made her feel nauseous. Across the small table, Chloe was beaming.

Chloe had gotten the job. Emily hadn't even received a response. She focused on the steam curling upwards from the cup, a futile attempt to avoid meeting Chloe's gaze.

"I can't believe it!" Chloe exclaimed. "It's perfect! Just what I wanted!" Emily nodded, managing a weak smile.

She hated herself for feeling like this. She knew she should be happy for Chloe, her best friend, but a dark, unwelcome current swirled beneath the surface of her forced composure. She wanted to scream. She wanted to run. Instead, she just sipped the coffee, the bitterness of it now matching her mood.

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