sullen - Story 143166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You look stunning, Sarah," Ethan had said earlier, forcing a smile that felt tight around his lips. Now, however, the smile faded quickly as he saw Emily across the crowded dance floor, laughing with someone, her hair cascading around her shoulders. He remembered her touch, her voice. He felt a wave of bitterness wash over him.

He picked at the shrimp cocktail on his plate, the food now tasting like ash in his mouth. He scanned the room, looking for an excuse to leave. He took a long swallow of his soda. He felt suffocated by the joyous atmosphere, the celebratory mood.

He longed for the comfort of solitude, the quiet of his apartment. He knew he should stay, he knew he *had* to stay, but the wedding was starting to feel like a punishment. He felt trapped.

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