grumpy - Story 58366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt too loud, too bright, too… everything. David clenched his jaw, the muscles in his neck protesting. He trudged toward the mailbox, his feet dragging.

He pulled out the mail, his fingers already itching to tear it all up. A birthday card, anonymous, landed in his hand. He almost crushed it.

He set the card on the table, barely glancing at it. He was not going to be productive today. He would not be happy. He’d probably just sit in the dark.

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