He had woken up already feeling a tightness in his chest. He’d decided to skip his morning coffee. The air was heavy, the sky a bruised purple. Then, the world exploded in a symphony of destruction.

He threw on his shoes. The massive elm tree that had graced the Petersons' lawn for decades was now lying across their house. It looked like the house was split in two.

He sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose. He had no time for this. He needed to get to work.

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