grumpy - Story 58278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread usually made Leo happy, but today, as he entered the bakery, he felt a sudden wave of irritation. Being transferred from the back office to the front-of-house felt like a demotion, a punishment.

The overly cheerful greetings from the customers felt forced and unnatural. He scowled at the array of pastries, the colorful displays, the constant pressure to smile. He missed the quiet routine of bookkeeping, the satisfaction of balancing the accounts.

He leaned against the counter, his arms crossed. He felt a sharp pang of resentment. "Can I help you?" he asked, his voice flat and devoid of warmth.

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