angry - Story 5149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tore the note from the bulletin board. "Coach Miller has resigned." The words burned into his vision. Years spent training, pushing his body, believing in their shared goal. Now, this brief, impersonal statement. His hands were shaking. He crushed the paper in his fist, his knuckles white. He wanted to break something, to yell, to make someone feel the raw, visceral pain that was coursing through his veins.

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