grumpy - Story 58240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The volume on the television was low, but every news report, every casual mention, was a fresh jab. He sat on the sofa, clutching the remote, unable to find anything to distract him. A knot tightened in his stomach. He felt trapped.

He felt a deep, abiding fury. He wanted to rage, to tear apart the comfortable familiarity of his own home. The past, once safely tucked away, now haunted his every waking moment. He hated them all.

He stood and walked towards the door, then turned back, grabbed the television remote and hurled it across the room. He didn’t know where he was going, only that he couldn’t stay.

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