angry - Story 5111 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach's words slammed into Maya like a physical blow. "We need you at shortstop, Maya. Your speed…" He trailed off, gesturing vaguely. Maya stared at him, jaw clenched. Shortstop? After all the grueling hours she'd poured into honing her pitching arm? A vein throbbed in her temple.

Her knuckles whitened around the worn leather of her mitt. The field, usually a place of solace and focus, suddenly felt alien, the green a mocking backdrop to her internal turmoil. The sun beat down, intensifying her feeling of… *disappointment*.

"But… I’m a pitcher," she finally managed, her voice tight. The coach’s smile didn't reach his eyes. "We need you to fill a gap. Team comes first." She wanted to scream.

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