grumpy - Story 58810 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glared at the birthday cake, the candles burning with an infuriating cheerfulness. Liam had received the news about the half-sister at his birthday party and the festivities now seemed utterly absurd.

He crossed his arms, the gesture tight and defensive. His friends, oblivious to the emotional turmoil, were singing "Happy Birthday," their voices a barrage of unwanted sound. The room spun.

He hated the forced smiles, the obligatory well-wishes. He wanted to scream. Instead, he just stared at the flickering flames, a silent embodiment of his inner frustration.

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