grumpy - Story 58822 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of Leo's tiny apartment, mirroring the tempest within him. He hadn’t slept well, and now, the printer chose this moment to jam. "Great," he growled at the lifeless machine, kicking at its base.

He needed to get to the gallery with his proposal for the art installation, but the damn thing just wouldn’t work. He finally wrestled the paper free and, with a sigh, began re-printing the document.

The elevator ride down was excruciatingly slow. At the lobby, a woman with a bright, overly cheerful smile bounced towards him. “Oh, you’re also heading to the gallery? Exciting, isn't it?" Her voice was like nails on a chalkboard. She was carrying a portfolio with the exact same design and logo as his. He wanted to scream.

She started talking about her “amazing installation.” He mumbled something about the weather, his jaw tight.

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