The restaurant was too loud, the service was too slow, and the steak was woefully overcooked. Evelyn pushed the plate away, a muscle twitching in her jaw. She felt a burning sensation in her chest. She grabbed her phone, intending to text a savage review to her friend, detailing every flaw. The words came fast and furious. She pressed send. The recipient, she realized too late, was the restaurant manager, with whom she had been flirting.

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