angry - Story 5037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheap motel room felt like a cage. Liam tossed the book onto the grimy bedspread. He felt a physical pressure on his chest, a tightness he couldn't shake. His life, reduced to bullet points and shallow analysis. He wanted to break something. His fists repeatedly clenched, his knuckles whitening.

He grabbed the nearest object: the television remote. He turned it on, the volume cranked up, a loud, artificial distraction. He wanted the noise to drown out the voice in his head that kept repeating the same phrases, the same insults. He needed something to silence the internal storm.

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