“Figures.” David muttered, slamming the door of his apartment with excessive force. Dr. Moreau, his advisor, was moving to a better position, of course. Leaving him to figure out the mess. He kicked off his shoes, sending one of them skidding across the wooden floor.

He paced the length of his living room, his hands stuffed in his pockets. The walls seemed to be closing in. He felt the familiar weight of frustration settle in his stomach. He hadn’t felt this unsettled in… well, a long time.

He needed to do something. Anything. He grabbed his coat, muttered a curse under his breath, and stormed out the door again.

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