The courtroom felt suffocating, and the formality of it all grated on Richard’s nerves. His sister, Susan, sat beside him, radiating a serene calm he found infuriating. She was always so… composed.

The will was read. Susan would inherit the family’s art collection. Richard felt a knot in his stomach.

His inheritance: a collection of vintage stamps. The details were read aloud, and he let out a short, frustrated sigh.

He didn't know anything about stamps.

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