sullen - Story 144000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library was quiet, too quiet. Maya sat at a desk, the assigned reading material in front of her. But she couldn't focus. Her essay, the "gem" everyone was talking about, was now included in the introductory course materials. The irony was not lost on her.

She picked at the corner of the textbook. The words on the page blurred. She felt as though her private thoughts had been put on display, and then used to teach.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the world. Her chest felt constricted. The library, her sanctuary, now felt like a prison.

A classmate, Sarah, approached, her face bright with excitement. Maya forced a smile. Sarah asked her about the essay. Maya mumbled an answer, something polite, something insincere. She longed to be alone.

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