grumpy - Story 58030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless din of the city traffic was enough to fray even the most resilient nerves, and Liam was far from resilient at the moment. He was already late for his appointment. His nephew, Alex, presented him with a drawing – a depiction of a cityscape. And standing in the corner of the drawing was a shadowy figure with a single, oversized eye.

Liam’s breath hitched. It was "Spectre," his old imaginary friend. He felt a tremor in his hands. "What’s this?" he asked, his voice rough.

Alex grinned. “It’s my pal, Cyclops!” Liam took a deep breath. He just wanted to get away. He took the drawing and quickly looked away.

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