The bus was late, the traffic was terrible, and the world seemed determined to conspire against Olivia's peace of mind. Her phone had died, leaving her without music. A small, tense ball formed in her stomach.

When she arrived at the co-working space, she saw it; another designer. She knew what this meant, even before the other person started talking.

"I can't believe it!" the woman said, beaming. "We're both working on the same fashion blog!" The woman's excited energy was a stark contrast to the way Olivia felt. She felt like screaming.

Olivia just nodded, her jaw locked.

"Fantastic," she managed to squeak out.

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