angry - Story 5157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The muscles in Ben’s neck were tight, coiled. He was staring at the job posting on his computer screen, as if by sheer force of will he could change the outcome. The perfectly worded description of the role, the benefits, the opportunities… it all seemed a cruel joke now.

He slammed the laptop shut, the sharp report echoing through his small apartment. His vision swam. He needed to *move*, to burn off the restless energy that coursed through his veins. He stood up, pacing the confined space, his steps quick and erratic.

"Of course," he muttered, grinding his teeth. "Of course she got it."

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