"Another late night, Mom?" Her daughter's voice, usually a welcome sound, was now an irritating intrusion. Karen turned away from the kitchen window, her gaze fixed on the swirling darkness outside. The DNA results had been a shock. An unwelcome one.

She poured herself a glass of wine, the clink of the bottle sharp in the quiet house. The label blurred before her eyes.

"Just…tired," she muttered, the words barely a whisper. She stared at the wine, the amber liquid a reflection of the emptiness that had suddenly invaded her. She wasn't ready. Not yet.

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