sullen - Story 143527 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The usual buzz of the coffee shop felt like a headache. Liam stared out the window, watching the rain streak down the glass. He felt like the inside of his chest had become a lead weight. He sipped his coffee, but the bitterness did nothing to wake him up.

He'd read every single book by the author, and had always been inspired. Now, he'd discovered that the author had lifted passages from his stories. He felt that his world had been stolen from him.

He slammed his coffee cup onto the table, the clatter drawing a few curious glances. He ignored them. He felt a sudden, intense urge to smash something. He needed to get away from the people, the place, everything.

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