grumpy - Story 58766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a familiar tightening in his chest. His usual morning walk took him past the old family home. He'd done it countless times. Today, the world was a little less bright.

He stared at the blank space where the cedar had stood. The scent of cut wood hung in the air, a pungent reminder of what had been. Each breath felt labored, difficult. He wanted to turn and run.

His feet remained planted, rooted, like the tree that was now nothing more than a memory.

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