angry - Story 5023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"More juice, Aunt Sarah?" Lily’s innocent voice grated on Sarah's nerves. She forced a smile and poured the juice, her movements stiff. The colorful artwork plastered on the fridge—a depiction of a smiling bear, identical to the one Sarah used to confide in as a child— felt like a taunt.

Sarah wanted to be anywhere but here, with her sister's family. Each childish giggle, each innocent question, was a fresh jab. The house felt too small, the air thick with memories she wanted to obliterate. She found herself snapping at Lily for spilling a crumb, the words leaving her mouth before she could stop them.

Sarah excused herself to the bathroom, her hands trembling. She splashed cold water on her face, trying to calm the racing pulse in her temples. The reflection in the mirror stared back, a stranger marked by an emotion she couldn't name.

Emotion: angry

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -2.05 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.18

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion angry. 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 angry stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the angry emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the angry vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.354
`est`	0.354
`aggravated`	0.342
`🤬`	0.337
`恨`	0.323

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.424
`a`	-0.411
`la`	-0.341
`H`	-0.320
`L`	-0.296