sullen - Story 143438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the gallery was thick with pretension, the art world's glittering facade. He sipped the lukewarm champagne, the bubbles doing little to lighten his spirits. He saw the critic, beaming in front of her "signature" dish, the "Golden Chicken Delight." He had poured his life into the recipe, and they had taken it.

His back ached with a dull throb. The other guests' voices were a dull roar. He wanted to escape, to disappear.

He looked around the room, feeling like a ghost.

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