He was stuck in a dentist's waiting room, already feeling anxious. The magazines were old, the chairs uncomfortable. Then, from a hidden speaker, he heard it. *His* song, "Dust and Dreams," playing as background music. He felt his face heat up.

He closed his eyes, trying to breathe through the sudden tightness in his chest. The arrangement was… wrong. The delicate piano melody was obscured by a jaunty drum beat. The emotional depth was completely lost. He felt a wave of anger rise up within him. The pain of the upcoming procedure was dwarfed by the agony of hearing his creation defiled. He was trapped.

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