sullen - Story 143907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria buzzed with a nervous energy, but Clara felt apart from it. She sat alone, pushing the food around her plate. The mashed potatoes were cold. The meatloaf was dry. Everything tasted like ashes.

Her friends tried to talk to her, but their words felt hollow. She just gave them a shrug. The announcement had hit her hard. The whole scene felt wrong, like a stage set after the play had ended.

She pushed her plate away. She couldn't eat. She couldn't bring herself to care.

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