The lukewarm coffee in the cafeteria tasted like dirt. Liam picked at his untouched sandwich. He’d poured his heart and soul into that programming assignment, and for what? A measly C? He felt his lip curl slightly.

He scowled at the screen in front of him, the code that had once seemed elegant now appeared clumsy and amateurish. He wanted to throw his laptop across the room.

He pushed his chair back with a screech, the sound grating on his ears. He stalked towards the exit, ignoring the friendly greetings of his classmates.

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