The air in the library felt musty and stale. David slammed the book shut, the noise echoing in the quiet room. The discovery of a half-sister, revealed in a family history he’d been researching, had thrown him into a mood he couldn’t shake off.

He stood up so fast, his chair scraped the floor, and he felt his stomach churn with an unfamiliar combination of anxieties. He felt hemmed in and trapped by his own genealogy.

He rubbed his temples, trying to dispel the pressure building behind his eyes. He wished he'd never started this project. He wanted to go home and hide under the covers.

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