grumpy - Story 58594 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The printer spat out the rejection letter, a thin, white rectangle of disappointment. Michael watched it emerge, a knot forming in his chest.

He ripped the letter into tiny pieces, the paper tearing easily in his grip. The fragments fluttered like snowflakes onto his desk, a sad confetti of failure.

He grabbed his coat and slammed the door behind him. He needed to get away from his apartment.

He pulled his baseball cap low over his eyes and started to walk.

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