sullen - Story 143167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the wedding decorations seemed to scream at Daniel. He was standing near the restrooms, trying to take a deep breath. It wasn't working. He spotted Sofia across the crowded room, she was now looking at him. He quickly turned his gaze away. He felt his face heat up.

He felt a deep sense of inadequacy, a gnawing feeling of being out of place. He wanted to scream. He wanted to vanish. He felt the familiar weight of self-doubt settling over him.

He watched the other guests, their laughter and their joy a constant reminder of his own inner turmoil. He excused himself and went outside to get some air.

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