grumpy - Story 58899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The walk home felt interminable. Ethan’s shoulders slumped with each step. An F on the presentation? He'd practiced for weeks. He'd even bought a new tie.

He kicked a pebble across the sidewalk, watching it bounce and roll. He wished he could just vanish.

He arrived at his house and slammed the front door, the sound echoing through the empty rooms. He didn't want to talk to anyone. He just wanted to be left alone, with his misery.

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