sullen - Story 143880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The echo of the applause still rang in Liam's ears, but it didn't fill the void. He leaned against the damp brick wall, watching the stream of people exit the gallery. Their laughter, their chatter, grated on his nerves. He felt a strange sort of sickness. His artwork, his voice, taken and used without a second thought. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and the air around him felt heavy and suffocating. The world seemed to shrink around him.

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