sullen - Story 143220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old journal lay open on the table, its pages filled with faded ink. “Remember this?” Ben asked, pointing to an entry about their school trip. It was about the first time they played in a band together. He remembered the cheers, the thrill. Charlie remembered the nerves, the mistakes, the crushing disappointment when he’d forgotten his lines.

He sighed, the sound escaping him before he could stop it. The journal seemed to amplify the silence between them. He closed his eyes, his head aching. He’d rather be anywhere else.

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