sullen - Story 143285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering neon sign of the diner cast a sickly green glow on the rain-slicked street outside. Inside, Clara poked listlessly at her fries. Across the table, the waitress hummed a tune as she wiped the counter, completely oblivious to Clara's mood. A friend request. It was from Paul, the kid who had spread rumours about her in middle school. The memory stung.

The fries tasted like cardboard.

She pushed the plate away, the metal fork clattering against the plate. She felt utterly depleted.

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