grumpy - Story 58364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sting of the cold air nipped at Amelia's cheeks as she walked to the mailbox. Everything felt abrasive this morning, from the biting wind to the too-bright streetlights. A headache throbbed behind her eyes.

She fished out the mail, her fingers numb. Among the usual bills, a brightly colored birthday card peeked out. Unsigned. A sense of annoyance prickled at her.

"What a waste," she thought, immediately discarding it. She decided to go straight back inside, and shut herself in. The world was already too much.

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