grumpy - Story 58618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She’d spent the day avoiding calls. She knew what was coming. The forced sentimentality, the manufactured nostalgia, the inevitable spotlight. She clenched her fist.

The waiters glided through the crowd, offering canapés. She picked one up, then set it back down, unable to stomach the effort it took to feign enjoyment. Her stomach turned.

She heard the announcement. A wave of exhaustion washed over her. She knew exactly what she needed to do to get through this, and the knowledge made her want to run. She forced a smile and headed toward the podium.

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