sullen - Story 143528 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the gallery was thick with the scent of expensive perfume and pretentious conversation. Maya, normally captivated by art, felt nauseous. The paintings on the walls, once a source of inspiration, now felt sterile and shallow. She’d always admired the work of Julian Vance, the featured artist. Finding out that he had plagiarized his work left her feeling empty and hollow.

She edged away from the crowd, trying to find a quiet corner. The laughter and chatter felt like a physical assault. She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to block out the noise, but the image of Vance’s smug face kept flashing behind her eyelids.

She took a deep breath, and felt a cold hand wrap around her heart. She felt suffocated, and had to escape.

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