sullen - Story 143612 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the bleakness inside Clara. The champagne flute felt cold and unfamiliar in her hand, a stark contrast to the warmth radiating from the room’s celebratory chatter. The party was in full swing, a symphony of forced cheer she couldn't bring herself to join.

She took a long sip, the bubbles doing nothing to lighten the weight in her stomach. She watched her father, beaming, surrounded by well-wishers. A hollow ache formed in her chest. His happiness seemed to highlight her own lack of it.

Later, as she approached the microphone, her steps were slow and hesitant. The words felt like lead in her mouth. She could barely manage a whisper.

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