sullen - Story 143580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old carousel, its paint chipped and faded, stood silent in the park. Ava leaned against the railing, watching the empty horses. She’d revisited the park, hoping to recapture a piece of her past with Leo, and saw him.

When she'd seen him, she called his name and smiled, but he just gave her a blank stare. Then a polite, "Sorry, I don't think we've met." It was as if a sharp blade had sliced through her chest.

She felt the crushing weight of everything lost, everything forgotten, pressing down on her. The carousel, once a symbol of joy and shared laughter, now felt like a tomb. She turned and walked away, her shoulders slumped.

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