The rhythmic thumping vibrated through his very bones. He slammed his fist on the table, a loud crack echoing in the quiet room. The headache he'd been fighting all day intensified. He just wanted some silence.

He glared at the wall separating his apartment from his neighbour’s. He imagined himself climbing over it and unplugging their stereo. He imagined himself strangling their dog.

Taking a deep breath, he walked to the window, opened it, and let the noise assault him. He felt his hands clench into fists. Then, with a sudden decision, he stormed towards the door.

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