angry - Story 5150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the kitchen was oppressive. I stared at the note propped up against the sugar bowl. "Chef Dubois has decided to retire." My breath hitched. He had taught me everything. He had seen potential in me when no one else had. Now, just this cold, impersonal goodbye. I kicked a chair. I wanted to scream, to shatter something. I grabbed a knife and plunged it into the cutting board with violent force.

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