The office air hung heavy, a miasma of stale coffee and forced productivity. Sarah slumped in her chair, the weight of a thousand emails pressing down on her. Her head throbbed, and her vision blurred. She hated the constant demands, the relentless pressure.

She was about to go home when her boss told her to stay. He wanted to discuss the new project. She huffed, then sat down and listened.

When he was done, a male colleague quietly pulled her to one side and started asking about her health. He revealed he had the same medical condition. Sarah just sighed, the realization hitting her like a physical blow. Then she smiled.

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