sullen - Story 143525 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the library was usually a comfort to Clara, but today it was a heavy cloak, smothering her. She hunched over her desk, the half-finished manuscript lying open before her, its pages mocking her with their emptiness. She’d always found inspiration in the words of Julian Bellweather. Now, she felt deflated, all drive and motivation completely gone.

She ran a hand through her hair, pushing it back from her face. The words on the page blurred before her eyes, no longer holding any magic. She closed her eyes, and a wave of exhaustion washed over her. She felt drained, as if her creative spirit had been stolen.

She hadn't touched her own writing since the news broke. She felt like a fraud, even though she hadn't done anything wrong. She wanted to stay curled up in a ball in her bed, and disappear.

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