grumpy - Story 58464 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless chatter of the auctioneer felt like a physical assault. Clara clutched her handbag, her knuckles white. Her grandmother's porcelain dolls, lined up on a table, seemed to mock her.

She hated the whole charade, the slickness of the bidding, the casual disregard for sentimental value. It felt like her heart was being slowly ripped out.

She shifted her weight, feeling a pinprick of sweat on her forehead. The air in the room was thick with the scent of desperation and greed.

The auctioneer’s voice rose, a predatory call. He was trying to get rid of her grandmother's dolls, each one with a history, each one a memory. "Seventy-five...anyone?" Clara wanted to leave, but she was rooted to the spot. Her gaze was stuck on the dolls, each one a ghost of the past.

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