sullen - Story 143492 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the coffee shop, mirroring the tempest brewing inside Amelia. She tapped her pen against the notepad, the rhythm erratic and frustrated. Across the table, her friend, Sarah, chattered about a new promotion. Amelia barely registered the words. Her revolutionary composting system, a dream she'd nurtured for years, was now a footnote in a larger company’s product line.

“So, what's new with you?” Sarah asked, oblivious. Amelia forced a smile. A fake, brittle thing. "Nothing much," she mumbled, pushing the coffee around in her cup. The lukewarm liquid tasted like ash. All the late nights, the prototypes that hadn't worked, the sacrifices she had made. For what?

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