grumpy - Story 58688 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The persistent, high-pitched whine of the power drill was grating on Thomas's nerves. He looked up, peering over the top of his newspaper, and saw his son, Oliver, diligently working on a woodworking project in the garage.

The garage, once a place of order and solitude for Thomas and his father, was now strewn with sawdust and half-finished creations.

He lowered the paper, the muscles in his face tight. His father had taught him everything he knew about woodwork, and he had cherished his time spent with his father in the garage. Now, the constant activity and demands for help felt more like a burden.

"Oliver," he called out, his voice sharp. "Could you maybe… consider taking a break?"

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