angry - Story 5168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room spun. He hadn't expected to feel this way. The sight of her, laughing with his former best friend, triggered a surge of heat that spread through his limbs. His fists clenched involuntarily. He knew he should be happy for her, that it was all over, but the tightness in his chest wouldn't allow it.

He took a step towards them, then stopped. He was surprised by the intense feeling that flooded through him. The urge to confront them, to say something, anything, surged through him like a physical force.

He turned and headed for the bar, slamming his fist on the counter. "Whiskey," he barked, his voice rough. He needed something, anything, to numb the feeling inside him.

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