grumpy - Story 58536 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email on his laptop screen, a cold knot forming in his chest. The carefully crafted words of the message seemed to mock him. "We regret to inform you…" Regret? They regretted? What about the countless hours he spent studying, the sacrifices he made to be here, to make something of himself? The scholarship meant everything.

He slammed the laptop shut with a loud thud, the screen reflecting his own distorted, displeased expression.

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