The aroma of freshly sawn wood, mingled with the metallic tang of fresh paint, was making Sarah's stomach turn. She pushed open the kitchen window, hoping to air out the stuffy room. The sound of the power tools was still deafening.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a feeling of being completely drained. She stared at the breakfast she prepared and realized she had no appetite. She left the food untouched and slumped back into her chair.

She wished she had a way to escape.

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