sullen - Story 143617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses and the incessant chatter filled the restaurant, but the noise did little to penetrate the wall of detachment that surrounded Sophia. She picked at the food on her plate, the flavors lost to her. The whole event felt like a performance.

She watched her father, the guest of honor, and felt a strange disconnect. He seemed so happy, so… whole. She, on the other hand, felt fractured, scattered. The speech loomed, a mountain she had to climb.

When her turn came, her voice was flat, devoid of any real feeling. She wanted nothing more than to escape the room.

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