sullen - Story 143830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The script lay open on the table, the words mocking him. Finn had poured his heart and soul into this screenplay. And it was all for nothing. The other film, the one that everyone was raving about, was so similar.

He rose from his seat and started pacing, his hands in his pockets.

He felt his stomach twist. The words, the plot, the characters... all of his work was so... pointless. He felt heavy, as if the weight of the film industry was now crushing him. He could almost hear the film rolling.

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