sullen - Story 143256 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Congratulations!” The word, spoken with forced enthusiasm, grated on her ears. Every well-meaning comment, every friendly pat on the back, felt like a deliberate jab. She smiled, but the expression didn't reach her eyes.

She clutched her glass of wine a little too tightly, the stem digging into her palm. The party, thrown to celebrate the article's publication, felt like a mockery. She felt small, insignificant.

She excused herself and went out on the balcony, hoping for some fresh air, some respite. But the air was just as thick, filled with the murmur of people.

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