angry - Story 5084 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her knuckles rapped sharply on the door. The sound was too loud. She waited. The door opened, and Mrs. Henderson, face aglow, beamed at her. *“Oh, hello! About the fence…”*

Her voice, usually a gentle murmur, was tight. The smile felt like it was tearing her face apart. She forced it. “Yes, well, I have a few questions.”

The sunny disposition of Mrs. Henderson grated on her. She wanted to yell, to scream, to dismantle the whole damn project with her bare hands. Instead, she took a deep, shuddering breath and began, her voice dangerously low.

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