sullen - Story 143517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art studio seemed to dull before her eyes. The brushes and paints, usually a source of inspiration, seemed to mock her. She was usually excited to paint. Now she just wanted to be alone. Her hands were fidgety and restless. The coach's decision echoed in her head, a persistent, unwelcome refrain.

She slumped in the chair, her gaze fixed on a blank canvas. She wanted to create something beautiful, something powerful, but the inspiration had fled. She couldn't draw a single line. The artist inside her was gone.

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