sullen - Story 143569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chill ran down Emily’s spine as she arranged the candles on the cake. Her birthday. Her friend, Mia, had booked a spa day. Emily had opted for a quiet evening with a movie. She felt foolish, the cake's sweetness turning to ash in her mouth.

She sat on the sofa, the remote control heavy in her hand. The movie credits rolled, and she didn't realize she had only watched the first ten minutes. The apartment felt vast and echoing, a stark contrast to the lively atmosphere Mia was probably experiencing.

She rested her chin on her knees and wished today were over. She wanted it gone.

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