sullen - Story 143619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Isabelle stood by the buffet table, inspecting the miniature quiches as if searching for a hidden flaw. The festive atmosphere around her felt jarring, a bright, cheerful backdrop to her subdued mood. The room felt crowded, despite its ample size.

She observed her parents' smiles, their easy camaraderie with the other guests. It was a warmth she couldn't access, a joy she couldn't share. She was asked to speak. The thought made her want to flee.

When it was her turn, her words were clipped, her tone almost curt. She just wanted the ordeal to be over.

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