angry - Story 5052 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah pushed her way through the cluttered aisles of the pawn shop, muttering under her breath. Everything in this place felt wrong, a repository of broken dreams and desperate measures. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm against her control. Finding the ring, nestled amongst the other tarnished trinkets, sent a fresh wave of heat through her.

She had to remind herself to breathe, to avoid saying the wrong thing. Her jaw was tight, and she could feel the tension radiating from her clenched fists. How could anyone do this? Her grandfather had cherished that ring, the symbol of their enduring love.

Her eyes narrowed as she watched the shop owner. He was so casual, so indifferent. He didn't understand the weight of the past, the hurt that radiated from the very stones. "How much?" she finally managed to ask, her voice a strained whisper.

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