sullen - Story 143441 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ramen tasted like cardboard. Rain lashed against the window of their dorm room, mirroring the bleakness she felt. She pushed the half-eaten noodles away, the plastic bowl clattering on the desk. Across the room, Liam hummed a cheerful tune while organizing his textbooks, oblivious. She watched him, a knot tightening in her stomach.

A wave of heat flushed her cheeks. She knew. She just knew. Liam had been acting… different. Extra friendly, almost. And then this morning, she'd noticed her journal wasn't where she'd left it.

"Everything alright, Maya?" Liam asked, his voice laced with forced casualness. She just grunted in response, fiddling with the frayed edges of her sweatshirt sleeve. The silence stretched between them, thick and uncomfortable, like stale air.

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