The sunlight seemed to taunt Eleanor as it streamed through the kitchen window, highlighting every speck of dust. She scowled. Her famous lemon curd, the one she’d developed after endless experimentation, was now being sold as "Madame Evangeline's Zesty Spread" at the local deli. It wasn’t even *good* lemon curd.

She snatched a lemon from the bowl on the counter, squeezing it with unnecessary force. The juice splattered, staining her hand. A fresh wave of irritation washed over her.

"Well," she muttered, her voice tight, "if they think they can just take what's mine…"

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