sullen - Story 143621 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya kicked a stray pebble across the cracked pavement as she trudged home, backpack dragging against the ground. The afternoon light cast long, distorted shadows, mirroring the way she felt inside. Another English lit class, another critique on her "lack of engagement." She just didn't see the point.

She collapsed onto her bed, scrolling through Instagram, a useless activity she usually found mildly amusing. Then, the notification popped up: "Mr. Davies started following you." Her chest tightened. Mr. Davies, her English teacher, the one who always seemed to see through her.

Now what? She considered unfollowing him, but that seemed…petty. She just felt…exposed. The curated image she presented online felt like a lie. Now he’d see the real her, the one who didn’t care about Keats.

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