The silence in the grand old house was almost deafening, broken only by the rustling of leaves outside. Amelia surveyed her brother, Ben, who was practically skipping through the rooms. She couldn't feel happy.

Their grandmother’s will had been… unconventional. Amelia, the responsible one, had received the money, a tidy sum that would ensure her future. Ben, the free spirit, got her music studio, filled with instruments and sound equipment.

She found herself, at times, clenching her hands into fists, a feeling of deep-seated unease settling in her chest. She wanted to scream at the absurdity of it all.

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