angry - Story 5100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, not recognizing the man staring back. The lines around his eyes were deeper, his face etched with a fatigue he couldn’t explain. He hated the way he looked, the way he felt.

He turned on the tap, letting the water run, a feeble attempt to wash away the tightness in his chest. His hands trembled as he splashed water on his face.

He slammed his fist against the counter, then immediately regretted it, the pain a sharp, unwelcome distraction. He needed out, needed to be somewhere, *anywhere* else, where he could just… breathe. He slumped against the door, feeling completely defeated.

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