"Unbelievable," sighed Kevin, crumpling the letter with a violent movement. He threw it into the trash, the sound echoing in the empty kitchen. His breakfast, a bowl of cereal, sat untouched on the table, as if it was mocking him.

The thought of going to work filled him with dread. He had been looking forward to this, this had all been part of the plan. Now he just felt defeated, like a deflated balloon.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to rage. He wanted to break something. He ran a hand through his hair, trying to tame the unruly strands that mirrored the chaos inside 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