sullen - Story 143583 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another round of applause for the incredible, the one and only, 'Velvet Echoes'!" The MC's voice boomed from the speakers. Liam watched the live stream on his phone, the screen casting an unflattering light on his face. The band launched into the chorus of his song, a song he wrote when he was young, full of life and hope. The joy he once felt in its creation was replaced with an aching void. He hadn't touched his guitar in months. He swiped the video away, his thumb blurring the images. The silence that followed was even more deafening.

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