The news felt like a physical blow. Sarah's stomach twisted into a knot as she read the email. It wasn’t the good kind of shock; it was the kind that made her want to retreat and hide. Her essay, the one about her struggles with anxiety, was now a piece of public property.

She felt a sudden, fierce desire to be alone. She pushed her chair back from the desk, the scrape of the legs grating on her ears.

She felt a wave of cold rush over her, and she wrapped her arms around herself.

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