angry - Story 5056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David slammed his fist on the counter, the sound echoing in the stale silence of the pawn shop. The shopkeeper jumped, his eyes widening in surprise. He hadn’t meant to react like that. It had just…exploded out of him. The sight of the ring, a small beacon of family history, among the other discarded items, had ignited a firestorm within.

He felt a hot flush rising from his chest, his face burning. He bit down on his lower lip to stop himself from shouting. His knuckles were white from clenching his fists. He felt like everything was wrong.

"How much?" he managed to choke out, his voice hoarse. He had to get it back. He *had* to.

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