sullen - Story 143257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection email from the editor burned in her pocket. It was a rejection she had expected. But what she hadn't expected was the crushing disappointment. The article that she had painstakingly crafted was now under another name.

She sat on the bus, staring out at the passing street. The scenery was a blur. She felt a knot in her stomach. It was a knot she could not unravel.

She rubbed her temples, trying to rid herself of a persistent headache. The bus lurched to a halt. She missed her stop.

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