A sense of heavy dread settled in, making Maria feel leaden. She barely noticed when David, her coworker, started talking. She was too busy hating her life.

“I guess we're in this together, huh?” he said. Maria didn't look at him, but she did let out a short, forced laugh.

She had a list of things to do, including picking up her son from school. All the time would be wasted.

The hum of the elevator continued to annoy her. She closed her eyes.

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