The afternoon sun, usually a source of comfort, now seemed to glare directly at him, the light reflecting off the shiny chrome of the car in front. The thought of dealing with this medical record mess was weighing heavily on his shoulders. He felt a dull ache in his jaw.

He slammed his hand on the steering wheel. This was the last straw. The idea that his medical history, his health, was being treated with such careless indifference filled him with a red, simmering anger. He started the car, tires screeching as he pulled away from the curb.

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