“Are you even listening?” Mark barked, his voice sharp. He was leaning back in his chair, arms crossed, staring out the window at the bustling street below. The noise of traffic only amplified the throbbing ache behind his temples.

Across from him, Ben continued to talk animatedly about his upcoming move. The words were a jumble of excitement and plans, each one a fresh stab to Mark's mood.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm the storm churning within him. He just wanted Ben to *stop* talking.

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