The phone rang. He let it go to voicemail. He knew who it was. The invitation had been a reminder, a catalyst. He hated dealing with it.

He picked at a loose thread on his jeans. He didn't want to relive anything. He didn't want to be reminded of the time that had passed, or the things that hadn't happened. He felt like he was locked in a box, and no one would let him out.

He sighed, a heavy, mournful sound, and stared at the floor.

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