grumpy - Story 58669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a familiar tightening in his chest. His jaw clenched. He was supposed to be at a meeting, a crucial meeting, and now he was entombed in this metal box. He resisted the urge to pace, knowing it would only worsen the mounting tension.

He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it further, a gesture of pure annoyance. The stale air felt thick and heavy, and the silence seemed to amplify his mounting exasperation.

"Can you believe this?" he asked, his voice laced with bitterness. His coworker, Susan, looked at him with an empathetic expression, but he didn't care for her sympathy.

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