sullen - Story 143519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ice cream melted in his hand, a sticky, useless mess. He didn't even notice. He sat on the park bench, watching the other kids play a game he was no longer a part of. The cheers and laughter grated on his nerves. The coach's words played on repeat in his mind.

His vision blurred, and he blinked, pushing back the unwanted tears. He felt the sting of humiliation, the sharp, raw pain of rejection. He clenched his jaw, the taste of ice cream now turned to ash. He wanted to go home, but home felt like the place where the world now knew of his failure.

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