The morning sun, usually a welcome sight, felt like a personal insult as it beat down on Arthur's face. He squinted, the lines around his eyes deepening as he surveyed the scene. There, again, was Buster, the golden retriever from next door, happily digging in his prize-winning petunias. His jaw clenched. He marched across his lawn, the grass crunching under his heavy steps. “Buster!” he barked, his voice tight with barely-contained annoyance. “Get out of my garden this instant!” The dog, oblivious, just wagged its tail, showering him with dirt.

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