sullen - Story 143827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report flashed across the screen, the image of the rival company's prototype searing itself into Kai's retinas. His. Work. The product he dedicated his life to. They beat him to it. He kicked his chair, its legs scraping against the floor.

He felt a sudden heat rising in his face. His fists clenched.

His phone buzzed. A congratulatory text from his manager. He deleted it without reading it. The screen's light seemed to glare off of him. He felt nothing but a hollow emptiness.

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