sullen - Story 143170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flash of cameras and the upbeat music felt like an assault on Chloe’s senses. She spotted Mark across the room, chatting easily with some friends. He looked perfectly fine, utterly unburdened. She felt a profound sense of unfairness.

She pushed at the food on her plate, the once appealing meal now tasted like cardboard. She felt a familiar hollowness in her chest, a sense of being disconnected from everything around her.

She excused herself and went to the ladies' room. Looking in the mirror, she saw a stranger – a pale face with eyes that reflected none of the joy surrounding her. She splashed cold water on her face, hoping to wash away the oppressive feeling that clung to her like a shroud.

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