The noise from the children playing outside grated on Evelyn's ears. She had just seen the new menu at "Luigi's Pizzeria" and recognized her recipe for the "perfect" pizza dough. She felt her face tighten.

She grabbed a bottle of cleaning spray and scrubbed at the already spotless counter with excessive vigor. Each harsh swipe reflected her inner turmoil.

She knew she should speak up, but the thought of confrontation filled her with a feeling of deep unease. She decided, at least for the moment, to just seethe.

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