"Beautiful," the art critic's words echoed in Elara’s mind, but they brought no comfort. The gallery was filled with people admiring her work, work she hadn't authorized to be shown. She felt a profound sense of wrongness. Each painting felt like a piece of her soul, exposed and vulnerable. She retreated to a dark corner, the edges of her vision blurring. Someone offered her a glass of champagne. She took it and stared at it, the bubbles failing to bring any cheer.

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