grumpy - Story 58267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The batting cage felt claustrophobic. Jake swung the bat with unnecessary force, the impact jarring through his arms. He missed the ball repeatedly, the metallic clang of the ball echoing his frustration.

His breath came in short, choppy gasps. His frustration built with each failed swing. He spat on the ground, the gesture automatic, born of raw vexation.

He should have been celebrating, but the celebratory mood had evaporated, replaced by the bitter, lingering taste of defeat. He threw the bat against the fence. The clatter of it hitting the metal was the only sound of his mood.

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