grumpy - Story 58797 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared relentlessly, and Thomas wanted to smash it. Every morning, the same mundane routines, the same tedious tasks. Nothing went right. The toast was burnt, the milk was sour. He felt like he was wading through treacle.

A man, his face etched with concern, came to his door. He introduced himself as an expert on crime scenes. He had bad news. Thomas’ house. An old murder. He said it so matter-of-factly. Thomas just wanted to be left alone.

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