The party was loud, the music blaring, the air thick with the smell of cheap beer and forced cheer. He stood in the corner, nursing a lukewarm beer, watching the others. Everyone seemed to be having a good time, but he couldn’t muster a smile. This was supposed to be a celebration, but it felt like a wake.

Across the room, Emily was laughing with a group of friends. He glared.

He watched her carefully, then, with a sigh, turned and walked towards the kitchen.

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