sullen - Story 143159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was in full swing, music blaring, laughter echoing through the crowded house. He felt the insistent grip of a heavy weight, pulling him down, even as he managed a weak smile for each well-wisher. The job was the conversation piece of the moment.

The others all seemed to be so happy, congratulating her. He grabbed a drink, and retreated to the patio, the cool night air offering little respite. He watched the city lights flicker in the distance.

His jaw clenched. He was supposed to be celebrating. He was supposed to be happy. But all he felt was this deep, gnawing… something.

He took a long swig of his drink, the alcohol doing little to soothe the growing unease. He wanted to vanish.

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