sullen - Story 143329 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang again. Another call, another patron asking to cancel their reservation. Chef Eva sighed, a deep, weary sound. The review had clearly done its damage. She leaned against the counter, her arms crossed.

She felt a strange mixture of resentment and shame. The restaurant, usually a vibrant hub of activity, was now eerily quiet. She noticed the dust motes dancing in the sunlight, a detail she would have usually overlooked.

She wanted to blame someone, anyone. But she knew the fault lay with her. She simply didn't know what to do next.

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