sullen - Story 143570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the party favors felt heavy in Daniel's hands. His birthday. His friend, Sam, was at a rock concert. Daniel had gathered his friends for a casual dinner. He felt the familiar weight of disappointment. He handed out the party favors, and he was met with stiff, unenthusiastic smiles.

He chewed on his lip, his gaze fixed on the table. The conversation felt forced, the laughter brittle. He didn't say it, but he felt a keen sense of envy for Sam and his friends, and all the possibilities that he and his friends were missing.

He rose from his seat, excusing himself to go to the bathroom. He looked at his reflection and hated what he saw.

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