angry - Story 5066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared blankly at the words on the screen, his mind refusing to process their meaning. Mark felt a strange detachment, as if he were observing himself from afar. His stomach clenched into a tight knot.

He slammed his fist on the table, the impact making the monitor jump. He didn't flinch. The sound was satisfying, a small release of the tension that was building within him.

He pictured the smug look on the advisor's face, the condescending tone she had used when she had reviewed his application. The image caused a fresh wave of irritation to wash over him.

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