grumpy - Story 58224 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the tempest brewing inside him. He sat in the cluttered living room, the air thick with the scent of old paper and something else he couldn't quite place, but hated. The task before him: sorting through his late father's things. A solemn obligation, and yet it felt like a pointless exercise.

His gaze fell upon a large, overflowing box. It was the last one, and he knew what it would contain. As he lifted the lid, a wave of nostalgia – and something else, something less pleasant – swept over him.

He saw it: his handwriting, childish and clumsy, in the margins of a history essay. A pang of annoyance, swift and unexpected, pricked at him. Why had his mother kept all this? Every worksheet, every test, every scribble. He slammed the lid shut. He couldn't deal with this.

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