sullen - Story 143599 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the library was deafening. Amelia wandered the aisles, the scent of old paper and ink usually comforting, but now it felt oppressive. She ran her hand along the spines of the books, the names of successful authors like a series of slaps.

She'd come here seeking solace, a reminder of the power of words, the magic of storytelling. But the library, usually a sanctuary, felt alien and hollow.

She sat at a table, her gaze fixed on the open book in front of her. She couldn’t concentrate. The words swam before her, blurring into an incomprehensible mess. She closed the book with a resounding thud.

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