The house was too hot. The air felt thick, heavy. Kevin removed his tie, tossing it onto the sofa. The day had been brutal. He just wanted to collapse.

He saw the laptop on the coffee table. "The Disappearing Act." Kevin felt a sinking sensation in his chest. His partner, Alex, was sitting on the balcony, nursing a glass of wine. He looked at the screen, and he knew.

He picked up the laptop. The plot was almost a caricature of their life together. He felt a flicker of fury. He’d kept quiet, stayed on his toes, but now? He felt a rising resentment. He needed space.

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