The chipped mug in his hand felt cold, mirroring the chill that had settled in his bones. The apartment felt too small, the walls closing in. He stared out the window, watching the rain blur the world outside.

A delivery van rumbled to a halt in front of his building. He knew, with a certainty that gnawed at him, what it meant. A package. Another package. For the ghost of the previous tenant, a woman named Sarah Miller.

He slammed the door shut, the sound echoing in the empty hallway. He hadn't wanted to move here to begin with.

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