sullen - Story 143624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window of the coffee shop, mirroring the storm brewing inside Daniel. His art project had been rejected, labeled "derivative" by a dismissive professor. He felt a profound sense of injustice, a quiet rage simmering beneath the surface.

He pulled up his Instagram feed, hoping to find some distraction. He noticed a new follower: "Mr. Harrison," his math teacher. His gut clenched. Mr. Harrison, the one who always seemed to see his potential, even when he didn’t see it himself.

He imagined Mr. Harrison judging his posts, seeing his attempts at humor as a distraction from his failures. He closed his laptop with a snap, feeling a bitter taste in his mouth.

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