sullen - Story 143960 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall buzzed with pre-show energy, but Leo remained isolated in his seat. The notes of the orchestra tuning were like nails on a chalkboard. The discovery of the capsule, found hidden beneath the stage, had added an unsettling layer to the evening. He didn't understand why the items had been buried. He opened the box, then looked at the contents: a concert ticket, a piece of sheet music, and a letter. He closed the lid, and let out a long sigh, and just stared at the stage.

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