A sense of pervasive unease had settled over Chloe from the moment she woke. The world felt muted, and her patience felt thin. Then came the email, and the carefully constructed facade of cheerfulness shattered. Her essay, the one where she had poured out her heart, was there for everyone to see.

She felt her face flush, heat prickling her skin. The words jumped out, mocking her. She felt a strong urge to get rid of this feeling by breaking something.

She slammed her fist on the desk.

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