sullen - Story 143168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses and the incessant chatter of the wedding guests was a cruel symphony to Maria's ears. She saw Alex near the cake table, seemingly unaffected by her presence. Her stomach churned. The cake, which had initially looked delicious, now repulsed her.

She excused herself and went to the patio. The cold air did little to soothe the tightness in her chest. She took a deep breath, trying to regain control. The memory of their last fight, their last goodbye, flooded her mind, each word, each gesture, a fresh jab to her heart.

She wished she had just stayed home. She wanted to escape this suffocating feeling, this sense of being utterly alone in a room full of people.

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