The car ride had been awful. Traffic, the radio, the incessant chatter from the backseat. He felt a dull ache behind his eyes. He just wanted it to be over.

He saw it as he was rushing to cross the street - a wallet. Picking it up, he felt the familiar weight in his palm. He looked inside. Money. Lots of it.

"Oh, for crying out loud," he said in a low tone. He stuffed the wallet into his pocket, already knowing what had to be done. A long, tiresome task awaited him.

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