The dim light of the bedroom accentuated the shadows under Rachel's eyes. Sleep had been a distant dream. The bedsheets felt tangled and constricting.

Her partner, Ben, had been secretive lately. She'd found an old phone, filled with missed calls and messages from an unknown number. Her suspicions had been confirmed the previous day when she saw Ben furtively using the phone.

Rachel stared at the ceiling, feeling a cold hollowness spread through her. Her breath hitched, and she closed her eyes, the feeling making her sick.

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