sullen - Story 143910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't touched his guitar since hearing the news. Finn sat on the edge of his bed, the instrument lying untouched in its case. The music had always been his escape, his solace. Now, even the thought of playing felt like too much effort.

He got up and opened his window, a gust of cold air rushed in. The setting sun cast long shadows across his room, making everything look bleak and desolate.

He let out a shaky breath and leaned against the wall. The world had tilted. He felt adrift.

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