grumpy - Story 58057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air in the pawn shop felt thick, heavy, like a suffocating blanket. David let out a sigh, his shoulders slumping as he scanned the room. Everything was a struggle today, every breath a task. The day was already ruined.

He was on edge, a coiled spring ready to snap. The shopkeeper’s indifferent gaze was enough to set him on edge. He just wanted to get this over with.

He then spotted it. A familiar, glittering shape in the glass case. His stomach clenched. The ring. His grandmother’s engagement ring. He felt a stab of something akin to betrayal, an emotion he desperately tried to bury.

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