The aroma of freshly baked bread usually brought a smile to Chloe's face. Today, it was just... bitter. She watched, arms crossed, as the judge announced the winner of the baking competition. The award was given to a near carbon copy of the cake she had slaved over. The winner smiled.

Chloe's throat felt dry. She didn't want the cake, or anyone, or anything.

She felt like she was being watched, and the feeling was unwelcome. She wanted the day to just end.

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