sullen - Story 143613 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ballroom buzzed, a vibrant contrast to Leo’s internal quiet. He picked at a stray thread on the tablecloth, his gaze fixed on the floral arrangement in the center of the table. He'd been asked to say a few words. The thought of it made his stomach clench.

He avoided eye contact with anyone, preferring to observe the room's energy from a distance. The bright lights, the boisterous laughter – it all seemed a world away from his own subdued feelings. He considered pleading illness.

He was grateful when it was finally his turn. His voice was flat, devoid of emotion. He got through it as quickly as possible.

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