sullen - Story 143823 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash. Liam stared at the printout, his jaw clenched so tightly he felt a headache blooming. It was his concept, his design, his painstaking, every-nook-and-cranny code. The other team’s project, though, was nearly indistinguishable, and was being announced first.

He pushed his chair back, the screech loud in the otherwise quiet office. He got up to grab a water, but could hardly bring himself to be bothered.

He’d put everything into this, and now? He felt his shoulders slump. He felt the words of the team lead ringing in his ears. What was the point?

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