sullen - Story 143708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air of the conference room felt heavy, suffocating. Mark ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn’t noticed he made. The presentation dragged on, each slide a fresh wave of irritation.

He felt a tap on his shoulder. It was Lisa.

"Mark, everything okay? You seem… a bit quiet."

“I’m fine,” he said, the words barely a whisper. He wanted to vanish.

“It's funny, I was just telling everyone about Camp Willow Creek,” she continued, her voice light and cheerful. "The swimming pool and the talent show!" The memories, so vividly joyous for her, brought nothing but a churning unease to him.

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