angry - Story 5035 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the library pressed down on Thomas. He was surrounded by knowledge, yet he felt utterly robbed of any power in this situation. He’d found the book by accident, shelved in the “Local History” section. The biographical details were wrong, twisted, and in some instances, completely fabricated. He felt a deep, throbbing ache in his temples.

He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging a stray strand. His hands were clenched in fists. His mind reeled. He considered all possible plans of retaliation, starting with the publisher, then the author, and maybe the public library for letting it happen.

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