sullen - Story 143904 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the unread textbook felt heavy in Ethan’s lap. He sat on the bench, watching the students hurriedly pack their things and leave the campus. They all knew about the closure. They all had plans. He felt like a rudderless ship.

His fingers idly traced the cover, the embossed title a cruel joke. He’d poured over this book for a future he now wasn't sure he could have. The wind picked up, rustling the leaves. He felt a chill, even though the sun was shining.

He leaned back, closing his eyes, and 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