sullen - Story 143566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The decorations seemed garish, the music too loud. Chloe stood stiffly by the buffet table, pretending to be engaged in conversation. Across town, her friend, Sarah, was hosting a themed cocktail party, and Chloe’s own low-key gathering felt inadequate.

She took a sip of champagne, the bubbles doing little to lighten her mood. The air seemed thick, the room crowded. She fidgeted with the hem of her dress.

Her gaze drifted to the door, a longing ache in her chest. She wished she were anywhere else. A lump formed in her throat, making it difficult to speak.

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