The sunlight, normally a welcome guest, felt like an unwelcome spotlight piercing his eyes. He shielded them as he trudged down the stairs to collect the mail, shoulders hunched. The air felt thick, heavy with the promise of a stifling afternoon.

There it was. A glossy envelope, addressed to “Mr. Alistair Finch, 22 Willow Creek Lane.” He checked the house number again. His mailbox. He didn't know an Alistair Finch. He'd been getting Finch's mail for months.

He ripped the envelope open, scanning the contents. Junk. Of course. Just another thing to toss.

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