sullen - Story 143650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator felt slow, agonizingly slow. As Emily descended, she felt a creeping numbness in her limbs. She couldn’t shake the sense of unreality.

She stared at her reflection in the polished steel doors as they closed, her face pale. She'd put in so much effort, so many hours.

Now what? That question echoed in her mind, a hollow sound. She felt like a tree, uprooted and tossed aside.

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