sullen - Story 143909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library, usually a haven of quiet contemplation, felt oppressive. The air was thick, charged with a palpable tension. Emily sat at her usual desk, staring at the screen. She didn’t even bother to open her laptop.

She scrolled through social media, seeing the same news being replayed over and over again. She felt suffocated, trapped within the confines of her own thoughts.

She felt a dryness in her throat and a stinging in her eyes. The idea of getting up, of facing the world, seemed impossible.

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