sullen - Story 143266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email on his laptop, the words blurring before his eyes. "Thank you for your application…" The usual platitudes. Then, the inevitable: "…we regret to inform you…" David shut his laptop. The screen went dark, reflecting his own desolate face back at him.

He slammed his fist against the desk, a sound of frustration that was swallowed by the quiet of his room. He’d meticulously planned everything, mapped out his future, and now… he was left with nothing but emptiness. The air felt thick, heavy, difficult to draw in. He felt trapped.

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