"Just leave it, Dad," his daughter had said, her voice flat, devoid of any feeling. The words echoed in Mark's head, each syllable a fresh wave of irritation. He didn't want to leave it. He wanted answers.

He stood in the hallway, staring at the closed bedroom door. The silence was almost a physical weight. The air felt thick, charged with unspoken grievances. He remembered her face when she realized he knew.

He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture of exasperation. His shoulders slumped. It’s hard to remember a time when he didn't feel this way.

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