sullen - Story 143824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall was packed, the air thick with anticipation. Amelia gripped her program so tightly that her knuckles were white. Weeks she had spent composing this concerto. Weeks she had poured her heart into it. And now? They were debuting a piece that sounded... suspiciously similar.

The opening notes of the other composer’s work sent a shiver down her spine. A cold, unpleasant shiver. She couldn’t bring herself to clap when the performance ended.

She was left there, motionless. Trapped in a chair, she was numb.

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