He stared at the empty space, a slow burn starting in his chest. His usually even temper felt frayed, stretched thin. He’d meticulously planned out his day, and this… this was not part of the plan.

His shoulders slumped as he walked down the driveway, a sense of heavy weariness settling over him. He felt the familiar thud in his chest as he realised how much work this simple tow was going to create.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. He needed to sit down, think it all through. And maybe, just maybe, not do anything at all.

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