sullen - Story 143185 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant was too loud. The music grated on Leo's nerves, the clatter of silverware a constant assault on his ears. Across the table, Maya was engrossed in a phone conversation, her face alight with a joy he hadn't seen directed at him in months.

He knew she was saying something she would not otherwise say. It was in her eyes, darting glances and secret smiles. The way she tucked her hair behind her ear.

He ordered water, but barely touched it. His throat felt tight. He excused himself and went to the restroom to breathe. He wanted to scream.

He splashed cold water on his face, but he didn't feel any better.

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