He had woken up with a headache, a hangover he hadn’t earned. The sun, relentlessly bright, grated on his nerves. He shuffled to the mailbox, clutching his head, and found a small, square card. A picture of a balloon animal, and the simple words, “Celebrate!” He didn’t celebrate. Not anymore. He stared at it, a flicker of something flickering behind his eyes. He tossed the card on the kitchen counter, next to the unwashed dishes.

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