grumpy - Story 58396 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another one," George grumbled, staring at the pile of books he was supposed to be cataloging. The smell of dust and decaying paper clung to him like a shroud. He’d been doing this for hours.

He picked up a volume of travel writing, sighing as he looked at the cover. He flipped through the pages, needing a break.

A bookmark, handmade from what looked like pressed flowers, slipped out. A letter was attached. George scowled.

He picked it up, feeling a familiar surge of annoyance. He wanted to throw it away.

He didn't. He looked at the handwriting, and the tiny drawing of a sailing boat. He started to read. He stopped, and read again. He slowly sat down.

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