sullen - Story 143898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The "F" blared from the computer screen, and her vision swam. All the late nights, all the sacrifices, and it amounted to this? A wave of nausea rolled through her, and she felt a tremor pass through her body.

She pressed her palms against her eyes, trying to block out the harsh reality. Her breath caught in her throat. The world was spinning, her future uncertain, and she felt like she was trapped in a sinking ship.

She couldn't stand to look at anyone. She retreated to her room, where the silence and darkness were a grim kind of comfort. She curled up on the bed, pulling the covers over her head, and wished she could just vanish.

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