sullen - Story 143649 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't eat lunch. John had pushed his plate of food away, appetite gone. He could barely bring himself to look at his colleagues, the cheerful banter grating on his nerves.

He felt a knot of anger tighten in his chest. He hated the thought of having to start over, of retraining, of… being judged. The future, once full of promise, now felt murky.

He stared at the blank screen, his fingers hovering over the keyboard. He wanted to scream. He wanted to walk out. He wanted everything to stop.

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