The vibrant colours of the paintings seemed to taunt her. Mara surveyed the display, a coldness spreading through her. Each piece was a betrayal. She watched as people laughed, pointed and complimented the work. "They're just so... *clever*," one woman said. Mara’s jaw tightened. She wanted to shout. She wanted to scream. She bit her lip and walked out, leaving the stolen work to its audience. She could feel the world closing in on her.

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