sullen - Story 143392 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash, just like the rest of Amelia's morning. Each clack of the keyboard at work, each forced smile at a coworker, was another stone added to the wall she was building around herself. She'd ducked into the used bookstore during her lunch break, seeking refuge in the hushed quiet. The books, she hoped, would offer an escape.

She’d chosen a well-worn copy of *Pride and Prejudice*, hoping for a bit of escapism. A scrap of parchment, tucked between chapters, caught her eye. It was a receipt, yellowed with age, from a flower shop. Someone had ordered lilies for a Miss Elizabeth Bennet. A tiny, involuntary smile played on her lips.

Amelia’s chest felt a little lighter, despite herself.

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