sullen - Story 143160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the curb, watching the traffic flow by. He’d applied for so many jobs, but this one was the one. The one he wanted. Sarah had got it. He hadn't received a call.

The setting sun cast long, distorted shadows, and they seemed to stretch out, to mirror the length and breadth of his disappointment. He pulled his hoodie tighter, the fabric offering a small barrier against the evening chill.

He kicked at a loose stone, sending it skittering across the pavement. The sound was sharp, brittle. He closed his eyes, then opened them, and looked up at the sky.

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