"Excuse me, but could you possibly move that?" Clara asked, her voice sharp, pointing at a wheelbarrow that was blocking her driveway. The construction crew barely acknowledged her. They were too busy.

She needed to get to her doctor’s appointment, but the road was blocked. She tapped her foot impatiently, the tapping growing faster with each passing second.

She sighed, her shoulders slumping. This was just another inconvenience, another thing to add to the already long list of things that had gone wrong today. She waited, watching them ignore her.

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