The old piano in the corner of the bar was gathering dust, unused and forgotten, just like her music. Now the bar was playing her song. A newer version. A pop version. A version she had no part in. She nursed a glass of scotch, the amber liquid doing little to soothe her. She glared at the stage. The singer was young and energetic, completely unaware of the turmoil she was stirring. She turned her back to the band and stared out the window, watching the rain streak down the glass, blurring the city lights into indistinct shapes.

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