sullen - Story 143539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library’s quiet was a mockery. Jason slammed his history book closed, the sound echoing through the room. The room's quiet was supposed to aid his studies, but he couldn't concentrate. He'd poured his heart into that scholarship application. The denial, the retraction, felt like a betrayal.

He stared out the window, at the bustling quad below. Students laughed and chatted, seemingly oblivious to the harsh realities of the world. He felt disconnected, adrift.

He rose to leave, the sudden movement causing his chair to scrape loudly against the floor. He didn't bother to apologize.

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