angry - Story 5117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're a strong runner, Kevin. We're thinking you'd be a great fullback." Kevin stared, blinking. He was a wide receiver, a position that demanded his specific skill set. He felt something constrict his airways.

His breath became shallow. He could feel his muscles clench, like a coiled spring. The coach was still talking, but the words seemed to fade, replaced by a roaring in his ears.

He wanted to argue, to fight, to tear down the entire field. The green grass felt like it was shifting under his feet. He wanted to explode.

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