He picked at his food, pushing the peas around his plate with a fork. The family dinner, once a source of comfort, now felt like a test, a gauntlet he had to run. Each question about his life was a fresh stab wound.

He escaped to his room after the meal, slamming the door behind him. He needed space. He needed to be by himself.

He stared at the ceiling for hours. He was thinking of nothing, seeing nothing, feeling nothing. Just a hollow void.

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:
S0.404
😞0.282
’0.254
:(0.233
无法0.215
Suppressed:
de-0.539
!-0.276
la-0.263
🤩-0.225
que-0.216