sullen - Story 143676 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed his textbook shut, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet library. The librarian glanced up, her eyebrows raised in disapproval, but he didn't care. He was done.

His advisor, Dr. Lee, was taking a sabbatical. The information had been delivered with smiles and well wishes. It was a well earned opportunity, but it left him adrift.

He felt a throbbing ache behind his temples. He had worked so hard, all to get to this point. Now, what? He wanted to scream. He pushed himself to his feet, knocking over the chair.

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