angry - Story 5158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone clattered against the tiled floor as I threw it down. The screen cracked, a spiderweb of damage mirroring the fractures in my own composure. The sound reverberated in the small bathroom. I stared at my reflection in the mirror, searching for an answer I knew I wouldn't find.

Sarah had won. Again. I felt a surge of heat rush through me, a burning sensation that made my hands tremble. I wanted to smash something, to break free from the constraints of this perpetual disappointment.

I turned on the faucet, letting the cold water run over my wrists. It did little to calm the storm raging inside.

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