sullen - Story 143930 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The monotonous click of the train wheels seemed to amplify the silence inside the carriage, making it almost unbearable to Ethan. He stared out the window at the blurred landscape, his mind racing. He was adrift, and he had been for a long time. The journey seemed to mirror his internal state.

A young man sat across from him, reading a book. He glanced up, then back at his book.

Ethan couldn't shake the feeling of being watched.

Finally, the other man sighed, closed his book, and looked at Ethan. “Rough day?” he asked, his voice low.

Ethan just looked at him, said nothing.

"They did the tests," the other man began, after a beat. "GSD VII." He paused, looking directly at Ethan.

Ethan felt a strange jolt. "Same here," he replied.

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