The weight of the afternoon was crushing. Kevin had stopped trying to understand, stopped caring. He hadn’t met the stares, and he’d avoided the whispers that followed him from class to class. He wanted to scream at anyone who dared look at him.

He kicked a small stone down the sidewalk as he walked home. His shoulders were slumped. He saw the world in shades of gray. His dinner sat untouched, the sight of food making him queasy. He was just tired.

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