Rain lashed against the window of the coffee shop, mirroring the storm brewing inside Daniel. He stirred his latte, the spoon clinking annoyingly against the ceramic. Across from him, Liam was practically vibrating with excitement. Daniel hated it. Hated Liam's boundless optimism, right now especially.

He picked at the label on his coffee cup, tearing it into tiny, meaningless pieces. The incessant drumming of the rain was getting on his nerves.

"That’s…fantastic," Daniel mumbled, the words hollow. He didn't mean it, of course. Not fantastic at all.

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