It was the lack of acknowledgment that stung the most. No credit, no mention, just the works on display. Liam stood outside the gallery, heart clenched. His creations. His blood, sweat, and tears; reduced to objects. He kicked a stone, the sound echoing in the quiet street. The anger felt like a burning in his gut. A man exiting the gallery, glanced at him, smiled and said "Wonderful stuff in there, mate!" Liam could only offer a hollow nod.

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