sullen - Story 143269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another try next year, huh?" The coach's voice, usually encouraging, now sounded hollow. James mumbled a response, avoiding eye contact. He knew what was being said, what was implied. He knew what *he* was supposed to say, too. "Yeah, coach."

He walked away from the training grounds, the setting sun casting long, desolate shadows across the field. He felt the weight of his unfulfilled potential pressing down on him, crushing him. Each step felt like a monumental effort. He kept his eyes fixed on the ground, lost in the shadows.

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