angry - Story 5049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bit down hard on his lip as the drill bit into the wall, a sound that grated on every nerve. It felt as if someone was deliberately trying to annoy him.

He pictured the house, a hulking monstrosity of noise, and he felt a surge of… something unpleasant, like bile rising in his throat.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to hurt something, to break something. Instead, he forced himself to breathe, counting each inhale and exhale, trying to find some semblance of calm.

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