"You alright, Dad?" His daughter's voice, full of concern, broke through the tension. He shrugged, avoiding her gaze. He had no words. He felt his face contort into a mask of displeasure.

He surveyed the scene. The house stood, silent and expectant, waiting for its final moment. He felt a familiar wave of agitation wash over him.

He clenched his jaw, unable to say anything. The wind picked up, swirling leaves around his feet, as if the house itself was weeping. He just wanted to be done with it. He wanted to leave.

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