sullen - Story 143540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been to the park in ages. Now, the swing set’s gentle creak and the rustling leaves of the overhanging oak did nothing to soothe his inner state. The picnic basket lay untouched, the sandwiches and fruit a mocking display of his failed dreams. This scholarship would have provided him the opportunity to do better.

He gazed over at the lake, the water glassy, reflecting the overcast sky. The world seemed muted. He wanted to scream. He just sat, feeling everything and nothing at all, a stone in a vast, indifferent landscape.

He didn't bother to respond when his cell phone buzzed.

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