The air conditioning blasted icy air directly onto Leo's face, but he was still sweating. His palms were clammy, his grip on the mouse tight. He kept re-reading the message, the words seeming to shift and morph with each pass.

He’d always considered himself a loyal employee. Now, that loyalty felt like a weakness. He felt… trapped, bound to something that was falling apart.

He slammed his fist on the desk, the sudden noise causing a startled gasp from the woman in the next cubicle. He immediately recoiled, muttering an apology.

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