The weight of the situation was a physical presence, a heavy cloak draped across his shoulders. He stared out the window, watching the rain streak down the glass, blurring the world outside. His entire medical history, a lifetime of check-ups and observations, was a stranger's.

He felt a burning sensation behind his eyes, a familiar warning sign of an impending headache. He rubbed his temples, trying to ease the pressure. The world felt muffled, distant, and unreal. He wanted to shut it all out, to disappear into the quiet of his own thoughts.

He sighed heavily, the sound swallowed by the silence of the room.

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