angry - Story 5044 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant drone of the circular saw felt like a physical weight pressing on David’s chest. He slammed the car door a little too hard, the metallic clang echoing in the otherwise quiet street.

He glared at the house next door, at the newly erected scaffolding, at the grinning contractor. He’d tried to be polite, to be friendly, but the polite facade was crumbling.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to tell them to stop. He wanted… well, he didn't know what he wanted, but he was certain he didn't want this. He fumbled with his keys, struggling to unlock the front door, his knuckles white.

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