sullen - Story 143623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rumbled along, and Amelia slumped against the window, watching the blur of the passing scenery. The science project was due tomorrow, and she hadn't started it. Her mind felt like a tangled mess of wires, refusing to cooperate. She felt a profound weight, pressing down on her.

That evening, as she aimlessly flicked through TikTok, a familiar name caught her eye: "Ms. Chen is following you!" Her breath caught. Ms. Chen, her art teacher, the one who always told her she had potential.

A surge of irritation coursed through her. Now she'd be able to see all the half-baked sketches, the unfinished canvases, the evidence of her own inadequacy. She felt a sudden urge to delete everything, to disappear completely.

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