The dog, of course, chose this moment to start barking. Charles winced, the sound a sharp, painful jolt. The fence installers were still at it, their laughter echoing through the air.

He went to the window, his expression tight. The dog next door had been causing him trouble all week, and now he was barking at the fence. It was just another thing to deal with.

He closed his eyes, his head throbbing. He took a deep, shaky breath, and then went to get the dog a treat. He felt defeated.

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