The email notification had arrived like a physical blow. The subject line, "New Listing," was a cruel understatement. It was her old house. Emily stared at the screen, her eyes narrowed. She had tried to block the memory of that place from her mind.

She huffed and took a breath. The pictures were worse than she'd imagined. The perfectly manicured lawn, the updated kitchen… it was all so… wrong. Her fists clenched.

She slammed the laptop shut. She felt the sudden urge to clean, to scrub something until it was spotless. Anything to channel the churning frustration that was building inside her.

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