angry - Story 5058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ethan scanned the display case. His breath came in ragged gasps. The ring. He recognized it instantly. He felt a surge of… something. He clenched his jaw, his muscles taut. His grandfather had loved his grandmother so much. This was a desecration. A final, cruel blow.

He wanted to smash the glass, to rip the ring from its prison. He wanted to grab the shopkeeper by the throat and… stop. He forced himself to breathe, to think. He couldn't do that.

He turned to the shopkeeper. "What's the price?" The question was a low, dangerous rumble in his chest.

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