sullen - Story 143239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artwork on the wall seemed to taunt her with its vibrancy and optimism, contrasting starkly with how Jessica was feeling. She stared blankly at her computer screen, the words of her diary echoing in her mind. Each keystroke, each secret, exposed for all to see.

She hadn't eaten all day. Her mouth felt dry. The lump in her throat was a constant physical reminder of her distress. She didn’t know how to face anyone, how to even breathe. Her world had tilted off its axis.

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