sullen - Story 143429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a beautiful day outside, the kind of day that should inspire joy. But she was inside, the blinds drawn, the light filtered and dim. She hadn't left her apartment in days. The invitation, tucked away in a drawer, felt like an accusation.

She felt a hollowness inside her, a persistent ache. She didn't want to think about the past, about what might have been. She was stuck with everything, with everyone, and the future seemed uncertain, and dull.

She felt like she was trapped.

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