sullen - Story 143699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't even attempt to make eye contact as he passed her desk. The smile on her face seemed far too bright, far too enthusiastic. He hurried to his own workspace, putting his head down immediately. He could feel the eyes of his other colleagues on him, filled with pity and curiosity.

He tried to focus on the work in front of him, but his mind kept wandering. He kept replaying the interview, trying to dissect what he could have done differently, where he had gone wrong.

He felt a sudden, sharp pang of… emptiness. Everything felt pointless. He was certain he could not bear this.

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