sullen - Story 143703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maria felt a knot tighten in her stomach as she stared at the email notification. Another meeting, another round of forced smiles and pointless discussion. The air conditioning blasted, making her skin crawl.

"Hey, Maria, you seem...distant," Leo said, leaning in. His smile was wide, almost unnervingly so. She wished he'd just leave her alone.

"Fine," she replied curtly, shuffling papers. Why couldn't they all just shut up and leave her alone?

"You wouldn't believe it, but I was just telling someone about Camp Whispering Pines," Leo continued. "Remember the canoeing trip?" Maria's jaw clenched. The memory of scraped knees and mosquito bites suddenly came flooding back, a unwelcome tide.

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