grumpy - Story 58468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the antique book, its leather cover worn smooth by years of loving hands. His sister, with her usual brisk efficiency, was packing it away, ready to sell.

"It's just taking up space, Michael," she said, without looking up. She clearly didn't understand.

He felt a tightness in his throat, a stinging sensation behind his eyes. He didn’t reply.

He wanted to snatch it from her, to hide it away, to protect it from the cold, uncaring world. He felt an urge to shout, to break the calm.

He folded his arms, watching her work. He let out a curt, "Fine."

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