sullen - Story 143532 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria buzzed with lunchtime chatter, a sound that grated on David's nerves. He pushed his untouched tray away, the aroma of the day’s special—meatloaf—doing nothing to tempt him. His shoulders were slumped, his posture a picture of defeat. He’d worked so hard, pouring over applications and attending every workshop. And for what? To be told he wasn't worthy.

The air felt thick, oppressive. Sunlight streamed through the large windows, highlighting dust motes dancing in the air, a cheerful scene that made him want to gag. He stared out the window, at the laughing students on the quad, each step they took a tiny stab.

"Hey, David! You gonna eat that?" Maria, a classmate, grinned, eyeing his food.

He just shook his head, unable to find the energy to speak. The lump in his throat threatened to choke him.

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