angry - Story 5046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been looking forward to a relaxing afternoon, finally tackling that book he'd been meaning to read. Now, the peace was shattered. The racket was relentless, a symphony of destruction.

He threw the book across the room, the pages scattering. He felt his jaw tighten, his breath coming in shallow gasps. He imagined storming next door, demanding silence.

But what good would it do? They wouldn’t understand. He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture of helplessness. He needed to get out. To leave. Somewhere quiet.

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