sullen - Story 143899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He pushed the plate of food away, appetite gone. The "D+" felt like a weight pressing down on his chest, constricting his breath. He picked at the corner of the table with a fingernail, lost in thought, avoiding eye contact with his parents.

"Is everything alright, son?" his mother asked. Her voice was gentle, but he couldn't meet her gaze. He just grunted in response. The world felt hollow, empty, and devoid of any joy.

He excused himself and retreated to his room, slamming the door behind him. The sound was an outlet, a release for the building frustration. He flopped onto the bed, staring at the ceiling, feeling utterly and completely deflated.

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