sullen - Story 143706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

James stared out the window, the cityscape a blur of grey and indifference. The constant thrum of the city seeped into his bones, a relentless rhythm of unease. He felt as if a thick blanket had been draped across his heart.

He heard a cough behind him. It was Chloe, standing there awkwardly.

"Hey, James," she began tentatively. Her voice felt far away.

"What?" he asked, not bothering to turn around.

"I just… I was talking with someone, and we realized we both went to Camp Riverbend. It's hard to believe." James didn’t reply. Camp Riverbend conjured images of summer rain and cold, stale hot dogs. He wanted to be anywhere but there. Or here.

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