grumpy - Story 58026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bitter taste coated John's tongue. The train was late, the newspaper was filled with bad news, and now he was stuck at a park with his nephew, Ethan. Ethan showed him a drawing, a vibrant portrait with one distinct detail: a creature with three eyes and mismatched socks was swinging on a tree.

John's chest tightened. It was "Wobble," his childhood companion, summoned by loneliness. The memory felt like a physical blow. "That's… unusual," he muttered, avoiding Ethan's gaze.

Ethan beamed. "Wobble is my best friend!" John forced a smile, but his jaw felt locked. He wanted to scream. He wanted to be anywhere else.

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
`either`	0.230
`😠`	0.227
`C`	0.226
`:(`	0.216

Suppressed:

`超越`	-0.206
`newfound`	-0.197
`স্বীক`	-0.195
`खोले`	-0.192
`অপহরণকারীদের`	-0.184