The sun was shining, but inside the cramped warehouse, it was gloomy. "Welcome aboard," a cheerful voice said. Brian just grunted in response. The warehouse, now his new work environment, was filled with the pungent smell of cardboard and industrial cleaning fluids.

He clenched his jaw as he watched the warehouse employees. They seemed happy, but it was just for show. He knew the truth about this kind of work. The back-breaking manual labor was a far cry from the sophisticated work of the research lab he was coming from.

He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it further. He already missed his colleagues. "Great," he muttered under his breath, "just great."

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