He had woken up early, his mind already churning with a list of tasks he didn't want to complete. The weight of responsibility felt crushing. He’d been trying to ignore it, to find a moment of peace. The world seemed determined to deny him any respite.

A crumpled brown parcel sat on the doorstep. He sighed. It was addressed to "Mr. Harold Crane". He vaguely remembered that name from when he moved in.

He picked up the package, feeling its weight. He wanted to throw it away. He knew, however, that he would probably have to deal with it.

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