angry - Story 5055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grit of the pawn shop floor felt like it was embedded in Clara’s soul. Everything felt tainted. She had been on edge since morning, and this discovery was the match that lit the fuse. Her jaw was set, and her eyes flashed with a burning intensity. She knew her family, and this had to be…someone.

She reached for the ring, her fingers trembling slightly. The cold metal against her skin sent a jolt of shock through her. This wasn't supposed to happen. She'd spent her childhood listening to stories about it. Now, here it was, in the grimy hands of a stranger.

"How long has it been here?" she demanded, her voice sharp and accusatory. The shopkeeper, a burly woman with a bored expression, shrugged. Clara didn't even wait for the answer.

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