He stared at the words, the black ink blurring slightly before his eyes. A wave of bitterness washed over him, leaving him feeling hollowed out. His hands clenched into fists, nails digging into his palms.

He slammed the notice down on the kitchen counter, the action jarring and sudden. He pulled the refrigerator door open, slamming it closed again without getting anything. This was just another insult, another blow. He was tired of it all.

He started muttering to himself, his voice barely audible.

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