sullen - Story 143625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the library buzzed, amplifying the quiet discontent buzzing inside Clara. Another day, another missed goal. She felt she was drowning, constantly struggling to stay afloat. She didn't have the energy to care anymore.

Scrolling through her Facebook feed felt like a chore, but it was all she could manage. A new friend request appeared: "Mr. Thompson." Mr. Thompson, her drama teacher, the one who always said she had a natural talent.

A wave of frustration washed over her. Now he would see the real her, the one who felt frozen with fear, who hated the spotlight. She clicked 'ignore'.

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