He stared at his reflection in the dark glass of the building. The glass seemed to show a stranger. His transfer from the archives department to the events planning team had blindsided him. The change felt unnatural, like a poorly sewn seam in a favorite jacket.

A frown creased his forehead. He hated the idea of parties and social interactions, preferring the quiet companionship of old documents and forgotten histories. He shoved his hands deeper in his pockets and trudged into the building, each step a protest.

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