He found himself staring out the window, at the gray sky. He watched the rain begin to fall, a slow, steady drizzle that matched the pace of his thoughts. He closed his eyes, and a wave of exhaustion washed over him.

He’d avoided all interaction with his colleagues today, retreating into his own little world of quiet despair. He felt isolated, alone. The world had become a harsh place.

He finally stood up, his legs stiff. He moved sluggishly toward the door, not even bothering to tidy his desk. He knew he'd need to find a way to get out of this situation.

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