sullen - Story 143677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared out the window, watching the leaves swirl in the autumn wind. The sky was overcast, reflecting the mood that clung to her like a shroud. The usual joy of the season was completely absent.

The professor was moving to another country. Another university. Another chapter. But not for her. The news had shattered her carefully constructed framework, leaving her feeling brittle and exposed.

She felt a stinging behind her eyes. Anger, frustration, and a profound sense of loneliness. She was supposed to be further along. She needed her.
Her thesis, her career, her life… all felt utterly stalled.

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