sullen - Story 143446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking mockingly. The essay deadline loomed, but the words wouldn’t come. A knot of resentment twisted in his gut. Across the room, Jake was unusually quiet, studying intensely.

He felt the sting of betrayal. Jake, his supposed friend. He'd confided in his journal about his insecurities, his struggles, his crush on Sarah from his English class. Now, Jake knew everything.

He shoved his chair back from the desk, the scrape of the legs echoing. A wave of bitterness washed over him. He felt exposed, vulnerable, and deeply hurt. He hated the world.

He stood and walked out, leaving the essay to itself.

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