grumpy - Story 58535 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Sarah’s hand, a physical manifestation of her escalating discontent. She’d been on hold with the university financial aid department for what felt like an eternity. The tinny elevator music was grating, and each repetitive loop of the melody only fueled her inner turmoil. She was picturing her parents, picturing the debt. The scholarship was her escape.

She pressed the mute button, and took a deep, shaky breath, her jaw tight.

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