angry - Story 5047 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrations through the floor were driving him mad. He could feel his teeth clenching. He envisioned going over there, just ripping the power cord out of the extension cord.

He took a deep, shuddering breath and poured himself another drink, the ice clinking loudly. The clanging, the sawing, the hammering -- it was a relentless assault.

He imagined the house, engulfed in flames, a pyre of the noise. The thought made him feel a little better, if he was honest with himself. A flicker of a smile played across his lips.

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