“Well, that’s that then,” muttered Michael, pushing away the untouched plate of sandwiches. His stomach churned, though it wasn’t from hunger. His sister, Sarah, was bubbling with glee. She was getting the family business, a thriving company.

He, on the other hand, was now the custodian of a small, dilapidated fishing shack on the coast, and a lifetime's supply of fishing gear. He slammed his fist down gently on the table.

“Think of the peace and quiet, Michael!” Sarah chirped. "Think of all the fish!"

He mumbled something unintelligible under his breath. He hated fish.

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