"Ugh," she muttered, tugging at the collar of her shirt. She'd told herself she wouldn't dwell on it. She'd tried to be reasonable, to accept the inevitable.

But seeing it... The emptiness where the maple tree should have been. Her childhood home. She'd always associated the place with the tree. They were inseparable. Now, they were separate.

A wave of frustration washed over her. She kicked at a loose stone, sending it skittering across the lawn. Her voice was flat and hollow as she said to herself, "Fine."

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