sullen - Story 143497 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the festival felt muted and dull to Evelyn. She stood in the crowd, watching a demonstration of a drone, a drone that was almost identical to the one she had envisioned, built, and tested. Her heart felt leaden in her chest.

She watched the drone maneuver gracefully through the air, performing the tasks she had dreamed of. The joy she had felt for her creation had been replaced with a bitter taste. She felt a dull ache, a hollow space inside her. She turned away, unable to bear the sight.

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