sullen - Story 143620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The confetti rained down, but it didn't touch Ethan. He stood at the edge of the dance floor, watching the jubilant revelry with detached interest. The music was loud, the room was bright, and he felt utterly and completely out of sync.

He took a long sip of his drink, the alcohol doing little to soothe the tightness in his chest. His parents' happiness only served to highlight his own emptiness. The speech. He'd been dreading it.

He went through the motions, offering a strained smile and a few obligatory remarks. Then, he quickly retreated, eager to escape the manufactured celebration.

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