The low hum of the refrigerator filled the kitchen. Maya stared out the window, the city lights blurred by the rain. She chewed on her lip, a habit she'd developed recently. Everything felt...wrong. David had been distant lately, spending hours in his study. The scent of coffee, stronger than usual, drifted through the air.

David emerged, carrying two mugs. "Buenos días, mi vida," he said, handing her one. The words were unfamiliar, a clumsy imitation. She stared into the steaming liquid, the rich aroma doing nothing to soothe her unease.

Maya took a slow sip, keeping her gaze fixed on the rain-streaked glass. She remained silent, a wall of unspoken emotions between them.

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