sullen - Story 143318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant buzzed with noise and laughter, but inside the booth, everything was still. The candlelight seemed to waver, reflecting the turmoil within Emily. Mark had been acting strangely all evening, avoiding eye contact, smiling too much. She’d been enjoying a rare night out, but it was ruined.

He reached across the table, his hand touching hers. "Olá, minha querida," he said, his voice soft, almost hesitant. He ordered dessert in a foreign tongue.

Emily flinched, pulling her hand away. She took a long, slow sip of her water.

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