angry - Story 5059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale scent of the pawn shop felt like a shroud. Emily moved stiffly towards the jewelry display. Her fingers itched to grab, to destroy, to… anything. The sight of the ring, her grandmother's engagement ring, felt like a deliberate insult. She felt a burning need to lash out.

She had been so certain that no one would ever do this to their memories. To her family. Now, here it was. The world felt twisted, wrong. She could feel a flush rising from her chest, her hands clenching.

She glared at the shop owner. "I want to see it," she said, her voice edged with steel.

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