sullen - Story 143822 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside Maya. She hunched over her desk, tracing the lines of a meticulously crafted blueprint. All that meticulous work, all those late nights... vanished. Another student, another prodigy, had done it.

A hollow feeling consumed her.

The announcement blared over the intercom, calling for her to meet with the professor. Why? She felt a dull ache in her temples as she gathered her things, avoiding eye contact with anyone in the hallway.

The professor’s words were kind, but they washed over her, barely registering. "Excellent work, Maya. But..." The "but" hung in the air, a cruel, invisible weight. She just nodded, feeling a heavy resignation settle over her.

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