"You didn't even tell me you were here," Sarah's voice was tight, her arms crossed. Her manager beamed, his teeth white under the stage lights. The opening chords of her song rang out. The band played well. Too well. Years she spent learning to be heard, only to see her songs take off without her. She excused herself with a curt nod, her throat constricted. She headed to the bar, and ordered a strong drink, feeling a dull ache in her temples.

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