grumpy - Story 58898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Constructive criticism.” That’s what the feedback was labeled as. But it felt more like a public shaming. Emily’s cheeks flushed crimson as she read the professor's comments.

She wanted to rip the paper into tiny pieces, but she forced herself to remain still, her hands clenched in her lap. The other students around her seemed to vibrate with energy, laughing and chatting. It was as if they were deliberately trying to annoy her.

She avoided eye contact as she gathered her things, avoiding any interactions. She wanted to disappear.

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