The rhythmic thump-thump-thump of the jackhammer was a physical thing, vibrating through David's chest. He slammed the car door a little harder than necessary, the metallic clang echoing in the otherwise quiet street. He hated it.

He imagined that he could feel the vibrations in his teeth. He considered going over there and just asking them to stop. He knew he wouldn't. He walked slowly to his front door, each step heavy with the weight of the annoyance.

He unlocked the door with a jerky movement, then slammed it closed behind him.

Emotion: grumpy

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -0.65 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 0.64

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion grumpy. 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 grumpy stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the grumpy emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the grumpy vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
👎0.232
either0.230
😠0.227
C0.226
:(0.216
Suppressed:
超越-0.206
newfound-0.197
স্বীক-0.195
खोले-0.192
অপহরণকারীদের-0.184