He slammed the laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the otherwise quiet apartment. It was a vicious act, born from a deep, internal frustration. His jaw clenched. The air felt thick, heavy, as if the very atmosphere had absorbed his disappointment.

He paced the cramped living room, the worn rug doing little to soften his steps. A forgotten stack of laundry remained unfolded in the corner. He’d meant to do it all morning. Now, his resolve felt fractured.

His phone began to vibrate, and he ignored it. It was probably his mother, calling to congratulate him on his "success".

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