sullen - Story 143246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, the lines around his eyes etched deeper than usual. The news had hit him like a physical blow. The medical records, the things that defined his health history, were not his. A stranger's ailments were now associated with his name.

He splashed cold water on his face, but it did nothing to wash away the feeling of unease. His jaw was clenched, his temples throbbed. He felt a deep, gnawing emptiness, a sense of being adrift in a sea of confusion.

He took a deep breath and let it out slowly, but the weight remained.

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