angry - Story 5140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was certain he’d followed all the rules, cited every source, and painstakingly crafted his arguments. But here he was, confronted with the ugly reality of the accusation. The professor's words, delivered with a chilling professionalism, felt like a direct assault. Michael felt a tremor running through him, a physical manifestation of the rising tide of… something.

He leaned back in his chair, his gaze fixed on the ceiling. He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to break free, to escape the confines of the room, to run until he couldn't run anymore. The very walls seemed to be closing in on him. He took a deep breath, fighting to maintain composure, but his jaw was clenched so tightly he thought it would crack.

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