sullen - Story 143234 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From her vantage point, Chloe watched the familiar bustle of the coffee shop, but she was disconnected, a ghost in her own life. Every shared laugh, every hushed conversation felt like a direct attack, each person a potential reader of her personal journal. The publication of her diary had cast a long, unpleasant shadow over everything.

She picked at the corner of her napkin, her eyes fixed on the condensation dripping from her iced latte. She wanted to scream. She had no desire to go home, yet that was where she was bound.

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