grumpy - Story 58829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He awoke with a vague feeling of discontent, a simmering irritation that followed him throughout the day. Everything felt off.

He was working on a documentary. He wanted to make something unique. Then he went to meet a producer, and found her discussing her project. The same subject. The same angle. He wanted to disappear.

“This is crazy!” she exclaimed, her eyes shining. “We are both doing the same thing, with the same people.” He felt a headache coming on.

He managed a tight smile. “I guess so,” he responded, his voice strained.

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