sullen - Story 143826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is just great," Leo muttered under his breath, staring at the gallery wall. His own paintings, his own style, his own struggles, were now rendered irrelevant. They were just, there.

The opening reception was a blur of forced smiles and shallow compliments. He wanted to scream.

He wandered through the crowd, avoiding eye contact, feeling the warmth of the room suffocating. Someone congratulated him on his "inspiration." He forced a smile. The laughter of the other artists felt mocking.

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