sullen - Story 143237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her fingers trembled as she clicked through the articles. Sarah felt the blood drain from her face. How had this happened? Her own words, her own private thoughts, were being dissected, analyzed, and mocked. She felt a burning need to crawl under a rock and hide.

She didn’t bother answering her phone. The incessant ringing felt invasive, a constant reminder of her newfound notoriety. She found herself clutching her chest, fighting the urge to hyperventilate. The house felt too small, the air too thin.

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