sullen - Story 143679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't speak to anyone all morning. The cafeteria food lay untouched on his tray. The taste of cardboard seemed appropriate. He felt like his appetite had completely vanished.

The news had been a kick to the gut. Professor O'Malley was leaving, taking a position at a different institution. He felt a strange sort of nausea, both physical and emotional.

He pushed his chair back, the scraping sound grating on his ears. He got up and left, not bothering to clean up. He had no energy.

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