sullen - Story 143807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery felt like an assault on her senses. Clara usually loved coming to openings, but tonight, the atmosphere of celebration felt alienating. She clutched a glass of wine, the stem digging into her palm. She swirled the liquid, watching the shadows it cast on the pristine white walls.

The email from her lawyer, confirming the existence of her half-brother, had left a raw wound. It was a constant throb. She kept catching her reflection in the glass, searching for something, anything, of the father she barely knew. The vibrant chatter felt like an insult. Her eyes stung with unshed tears.

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