angry - Story 5054 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stench of stale cigarettes and desperation hung thick in the air. John's stomach twisted. He couldn't believe it. He felt trapped, his chest heavy, suffocating. He’d come here on a whim, on a gut feeling, and now he wished he hadn't. Finding the ring confirmed his deepest fears, and it felt like a betrayal he couldn't put into words.

He kept his gaze averted, trying to control the tremor in his hands. He wanted to shout, to scream at the injustice of it all. The shop owner, a small man with shifty eyes, watched him with a calculating stare. He hated that calculating stare.

He took a deep, shuddering breath, trying to regain some semblance of composure. "I want to buy it," he said, his voice a low, strangled sound. He would get it back. Whatever it took.

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