sullen - Story 143390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall vibrated with the roar of the crowd. Ethan felt the music, but it failed to resonate within him. He stood in the back, observing the scene, a knot of unease tightening in his stomach. The bright lights and pounding bass felt abrasive, loud and hollow.

He saw him. His date. Dancing with another man. The other man wore the same watch Ethan had given him. The other man laughed at something his date said.

Ethan felt his face grow cold. A coldness that spread through his veins. He turned and quietly slipped out of the venue, the music fading behind him as he walked into the night.

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