sullen - Story 143270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The celebratory meal at the family restaurant was a torture. Maria picked at her food, the delicious aroma of pasta and garlic lost on her. Her parents, unaware of the blow she'd suffered that day, chattered excitedly about her future.

She forced a smile, but the muscles in her face felt stiff and unnatural. She wanted to share the news, to scream out her disappointment, but she couldn't bring herself to do it. The words caught in her throat. She pushed the food around her plate, the vibrant colors of the sauce and vegetables seeming dull and lifeless. The joy of the celebration was a painful reminder of what she had lost.

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