grumpy - Story 58296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost missed the text. Thankfully, it had beeped as he was walking out the door. The message, brief and dismissive, instantly transformed the eager anticipation that had been humming in his chest into a lead weight. Liam stopped dead in his tracks.

He glared at the screen, as if the words themselves were somehow personally offensive. His knuckles went white as he clenched his fists. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to punch something.

He breathed out a long, slow sigh. He walked back inside, slamming the door. The change of plans had completely ruined the flow of his day.

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