sullen - Story 143280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Welcome aboard!" The words were cheerful, but the tone of her new team lead felt insincere. Susan barely acknowledged the greeting. The move to the graphic design department felt like a punishment. She loved the order and precision of data entry.

She sat at her desk, avoiding eye contact with anyone. The vibrant colors of the design programs felt aggressive. She felt a pull, a longing to be somewhere else. The cursor blinked on her screen, and she felt a wave of emptiness.

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