She leaned against the window, watching the rain streak down the glass. The city looked drab, just like her mood. The air conditioning was blasting, even though it was freezing outside. They had told her to "mentor" this new kid, a bubbly blonde named Chloe.

*Another one to try and take my job*, she thought, her fingers drumming a slow, impatient rhythm against the cold glass. She had been here for five years, building everything up, and now... now, she was just supposed to hand it over.

“Okay, so, first thing… you’re going to need to learn to deal with the inevitable stream of angry emails," she said, her tone devoid of warmth. “Here’s the password for the account." She typed it in with a force that made the keys clack loudly.

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