The vibrant colors of the art gallery felt muted to Emily. She forced a smile as she wandered, but everything felt dull. She was trying to enjoy the exhibition, but something was off. The app pinged, and she instantly recognized the name: Brad. He had spent his childhood making her feel small.

She felt a sharp pain behind her eyes. Why now? Why did he have to reappear?

She abruptly left the gallery, the curated beauty suddenly feeling suffocating.

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