angry - Story 5086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“We just thought it would be nice,” she heard the man say. He gestured towards the plans, a saccharine smile plastered on his face. *“For the kids, you know.”*

His wife offered a supportive nod. It was like they were a team, a well-oiled machine of suburban oppression. She wanted to scream, to tear the plans to shreds, to tell them they were the worst.

She forced a tight laugh, the sound brittle and unfamiliar. “Yes,” she said, her voice strained. “That’s…wonderful.” The urge to run, to flee this charade, was almost overwhelming.

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