sullen - Story 143678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to campus felt endless. The radio remained untouched, the silence heavy and oppressive. He gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were white.

Professor Garcia's announcement was a polite letter, a farewell. He felt his plans suddenly become unraveled. The prospect of starting over, finding a new advisor, felt like climbing a mountain.

The coffee he’d brewed that morning sat cold in the cup holder. He felt a deep, physical weariness that made every task seem insurmountable. He just wanted to go home and disappear.

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