He was already in a foul mood, the traffic had been horrendous. The office had been a disaster. The client had been impossible. He just wanted to curl up in his chair and not move for the rest of the day.

The doorbell, shrill and demanding, sliced through the quiet of his evening. He muttered something under his breath as he stomped to the door, preparing to chew out whoever was responsible.

A package. Addressed to someone named "Brenda Reynolds". He ran his fingers through his hair. Brenda Reynolds had lived here five years ago.

He picked up the package. He needed to find a new apartment.

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