"Are you serious?" Maya's voice was a low growl as she stared at the office administrator. The woman, whose name tag read "Brenda," offered a weak smile. Maya wanted to rip the smile right off her face. The scholarship, the lifeline, was a mistake? It was supposed to go to some other, more "deserving" student? She had worked tirelessly, sacrificing everything for her studies. All for nothing.

The veins in her forehead throbbed.

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