The morning was off to a terrible start. First, there was the traffic jam. Then, there was the burnt toast. It set the tone for the rest of the day.

At the conference, he spotted her: another entrepreneur. The concept? The same. He wanted to scream.

She strode over, her face alight with excitement. "Isn't this amazing? We're both creating eco-friendly cleaning products!" His shoulders stiffened.

“That’s… interesting,” he replied, his tone flat, the words feeling like a physical burden.

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