grumpy - Story 58778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Isn’t it wonderful, darling?” Katherine’s mother’s voice was too loud, too cheerful. She could barely stop her fists from clenching. Her brother, Peter, was beaming, holding a deed for a beautiful property on a mountain.

The reading was a blur. The lawyer rattled off the details, his words meaningless. Then came Katherine’s turn.

Her inheritance was a collection of vintage clocks. She felt her face tighten. Antique clocks. She loathed them.

She felt a hot flush creep up her neck.

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