He stared at the television screen, the bright colors and noise a discordant cacophony. He didn't want to watch anything, but he didn't know what else to do. Being in the same room with his parents was an exercise in restraint.

He hadn't slept well. The old mattress, the one he had grown up with, felt like a torture device.

The endless chatter emanating from the kitchen was a relentless intrusion. He wanted to scream. Instead, he just changed the channel, muttering under his breath.

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