sullen - Story 143320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty gallery felt vast, echoing her footsteps. She was early. Thomas was always late. The art on the walls seemed to mock her, full of vibrant life, while she was increasingly isolated. She hadn’t slept well for weeks.

She heard a voice behind her. "Konnichiwa, hana." Thomas’s voice, but different. He stood there holding a small, intricately folded paper crane.

She studied the crane, her jaw tight. She didn’t speak, didn’t smile, just continued to stare silently.

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