The world seemed to be conspiring against him. Each noise, each inconvenience was an intentional affront. Michael slammed the back door shut a little harder than necessary, making the dog jump. The house felt too small, the walls closing in. He hated this feeling.

A lawyer called, his voice smooth and unsettling. The house, apparently, had a dark history. A gruesome murder, unsolved for years. The news settled like a stone in his stomach. Michael just stared at the wall, wishing he could somehow escape.

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