sullen - Story 143520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked into the library, the quiet a stark contrast to the cacophony of the arena. He picked up a book, but the words swam before his eyes. He couldn't concentrate. The news was still fresh in his mind. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture conveying his inner turmoil.

He sat at a table, alone, the book unopened. The other students seemed to move with purpose, absorbed in their studies. He felt disconnected from them all. The weight of disappointment pressed down on him, suffocating any desire for the future. He just wanted to vanish.

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