angry - Story 5038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call ended abruptly. Maria slammed the receiver down, the sound echoing in her usually tranquil kitchen. Her cheeks were flushed. The biography was a fabrication, a distortion of the truth. It painted her as something she was not. She felt the urge to destroy things.

She stood abruptly, pacing the length of the kitchen. Her eyes scanned every object with a predatory intensity. She grabbed a vase from the counter and hurled it against the wall. The crash of breaking glass was both cathartic and, at the same time, added to the feeling of emptiness.

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