sullen - Story 143896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the grade, his brow furrowed. He blinked, expecting the number to change, to magically transform into something more palatable. But the "D" remained, a stark testament to his perceived ineptitude.

He slumped against his locker, his back against the cold steel, the impact a strange comfort. He wanted to lash out, to scream, to dismantle the world for failing to recognize his worth. His jaw clenched, his hands fisted at his sides.

The chattering of other students filled the hallway, but it was just white noise. All he could feel was the acid burn of humiliation, the burning conviction that he wasn't good enough. He wanted to disappear.

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