The fluorescent lights in the office felt like a physical weight. He just wanted to go home. He wanted to be anywhere else.

He was venting to "MysteryMuse" online, a person who understood his love for old movies. MysteryMuse was his only comfort.

He decided to go to a local movie theater to watch a classic film, seeking solace in the darkness.

As the credits rolled, a figure approached him. "Did you enjoy that?" It was MysteryMuse, standing next to him, with a smile.

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