The bus was late, the weather was miserable, and now this. A handwritten sign taped to the door of The Curry House announced its final day. "Closed for Business." She squinted at the paper, as if the words might somehow change.

Her head throbbed. She stood there, rooted to the spot, a knot forming in her throat. She needed that vindaloo. She needed that escape.

Her fingers curled into fists. The world, she decided, was a decidedly unpleasant place.

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