He hadn't wanted to come up here, not after the day he'd had. His jaw was set, and his hands were clenched into fists as he hauled himself up the attic stairs. He glared at the items left by the former owners, objects that only served to increase his agitation.

He began opening boxes, rummaging through them. A tarnished silver tea set. A box of yellowed letters. A chipped porcelain doll. He slammed a box shut, the action echoing in the quiet space.

He needed to get away, to leave this cluttered space and forget about the day. He turned abruptly and headed for the stairs.

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