The morning sun, usually a welcome sight, felt like a deliberate intrusion. John squinted at the brightness, a headache thrumming behind his eyes. He’d woken up late, missed his bus, and now the coffee machine was broken. He snatched his phone, his jaw tight, ready to tell his boss how truly awful his day was. He typed a scathing message filled with grievances, hitting send with a forceful tap. Then, he noticed the contact: "Dr. Evelyn Reed - Therapist." He groaned inwardly.

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