sullen - Story 143164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The music was loud, the atmosphere vibrant, but Maya felt as though she was wading through molasses. The sight of Ethan standing near the buffet table, looking so… carefree, sent a familiar throb of pain through her head. She feigned interest in the conversation with her friend but found her mind wandering.

She took a long sip of her wine, the tartness doing little to cut through the heavy feeling that weighed on her. She had been sure she'd gotten past him. She had been sure that the past was in the past. But here he was, still able to disrupt her sense of equilibrium with a single glance. She wished the day would hurry up and end.

She avoided his gaze, busying herself with small talk, her smile feeling like a mask. She couldn't wait to go home, to be alone, to finally feel like herself again.

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