sullen - Story 143198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the grocery store felt thin and suffocating. Sarah walked through the aisles, grabbing items without looking. She didn't want to make eye contact with anyone.

She'd been dreading this day. The moment she saw the teacher's name on the class list, she'd known it would take all her strength to get through this. Miss Finch. The woman who had always judged and found faults.

She paid for her groceries, her hands trembling slightly as she gathered the bags. She had to smile and be polite. It was going to be a long year.

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