sullen - Story 143169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The string quartet’s rendition of “Here Comes the Bride” grated on James's ears. The joyous occasion seemed to amplify his sense of isolation. Seeing Olivia at the wedding, radiant and laughing, twisted the knife a little deeper. He took a long drag of his cigarette and looked to the sky.

He moved to the corner of the room, far from the festivities, and watched the couples waltz. He noticed how happy they were, and how miserable he felt.

The feeling of being an outsider was heavy, a physical weight on his shoulders. He wished he could just disappear.

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