sullen - Story 143265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the gymnasium was oppressive. It was meant to be a place of triumph, but today, for Sarah, it felt like a tomb. She'd put everything on the line, sacrificing friendships, relationships, everything, to earn her place. The team was announced, and her name wasn’t.

She sat in the corner, her back against the cool wall. She felt like an outsider looking in on a party to which she hadn’t been invited. The joyous shouts of her teammates echoed in her ears, each one a stab of disappointment. She wanted to scream. She wanted to run. She wanted to do anything but stay.

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