sullen - Story 143447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug felt cold in her hands. She sat on the edge of the bed, staring out the window at the gray sky. The silence in the room was suffocating. Across from her, Chloe was pretending to study, her gaze fixed intently on her textbook.

Her thoughts were in turmoil. She had been writing about her crush on the TA, Mr. Peterson. And now, Chloe’s knowing glances, her subtle digs, made her feel exposed. It was like her secrets were being broadcast to the world.

She wrapped her arms around herself, trying to ward off the chill that had settled deep within her. The world felt empty.

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