sullen - Story 143876 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always hated crowds. Now, standing in the middle of a throng of people, all admiring his stolen designs, Finn felt a profound sense of alienation. He crossed his arms and glared at the floor. The gallery’s slick decor seemed to amplify the internal turmoil. He felt a burning sensation in his chest. A woman pointed at one of his pieces and said, "It's so... *accessible*!" The word was a knife. Finn turned and fled, pushing through the laughing crowd.

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