sullen - Story 143445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window of their cramped room. Across the room, Ethan was listening to music, seemingly oblivious to her presence. The constant beat of the bass drum was a low, irritating thrum that vibrated through her bones.

She hadn’t told anyone about her relationship problems with Ben. But then, Ethan had started making passive-aggressive jokes about “clingy girlfriends” and “drama queens.” It all pointed to one thing. Her journal.

She curled up on her bed, pulling the blanket over her head, wishing she could disappear. The familiar scent of her own laundry did little to comfort her. Every laugh from Ethan felt like a personal attack.

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