sullen - Story 143630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world seemed to settle on Chloe's shoulders as she stared at the screen. The physics exam was tomorrow and she felt completely unprepared. She had withdrawn, pulling away from everything. The world felt dull and lifeless.

She picked up her phone, scrolling through her feed, a meaningless distraction. Then she saw it: "Mr. Johnson," her chemistry teacher, had followed her on TikTok. Her breath caught in her throat. Mr. Johnson, who always seemed to believe in her.

He would see all her posts, the ones where she seemed happy, the ones where she was being her, and he would also see the ones where she was utterly lost. She felt an unexpected surge of fear, a strong urge to make herself invisible.

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