grumpy - Story 58480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news on the radio was all bad, the coffee was cold, and the cat had just vomited on the rug. He considered moving to a remote island, a place where no one knew his name. The thought of dealing with anything else made his stomach clench.

A package had been left on the doorstep. He didn't even have to look at the address to know it wasn't for him. He just knew.

He stared at the offending cardboard box, a fresh wave of irritation washing over him. He kicked it, hard.

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