sullen - Story 143894 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, I don't want any," he stated, his voice flat, when offered a celebratory donut. The "C" on his lab report felt like a physical blow, numbing his senses. He’d sacrificed everything for this class, and now, it seemed, for nothing.

He picked at a loose thread on his jeans, his gaze fixed on the floor. His stomach churned with a mixture of anger and helplessness. The sound of his friend's excited chatter seemed to grate on his nerves.

He retreated to the corner booth, seeking a haven from the intrusive happiness. He didn't want to talk, he didn't want to smile, he didn't want to feel anything but the dull, gnawing disappointment.

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