angry - Story 5053 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh fluorescent lights of the pawn shop seemed to intensify the throbbing in Michael's temples. He didn't know how to act, what words to use. He felt like he wanted to break everything he saw. He just felt so…unsettled. Seeing the ring, the familiar sparkle, had ripped open a wound he thought had healed.

He stood frozen, his breath hitching in his chest. His hands were shaking; he shoved them into his pockets, trying to hide the tremor. He imagined his grandmother's smile, the way she used to polish the ring every Sunday. The betrayal felt fresh, a sharp, stinging slap.

The shopkeeper, a man with a greasy comb-over, finally spoke, his voice grating on Michael's ears. "You interested in this piece, son?" Michael just stared at him, his gaze a cold, assessing challenge. "What's the price?" he managed, his voice a low growl.

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