grumpy - Story 58987 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clanging of the pipes this morning was infuriating. It was always something. He considered calling maintenance but decided against it, the thought of speaking to anyone exhausting. The notice announcing the condo conversion felt like a deliberate act of sabotage.

He scowled at the breakfast he was making, the eggs sticking to the pan, the toast burning. The simple things, once a source of comfort, now seemed to conspire against him. The whole world was conspiring against him.

He pushed the plate away, the food untouched. He just wanted the day to be over. He just wanted the world to leave him alone.

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