angry - Story 5169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her teeth ached. She'd been grinding them since she first saw him. The string quartet sounded like a soundtrack to her misery. She found herself clutching her purse so hard that her fingers ached.

She watched him from across the room, the way he effortlessly charmed everyone he spoke to. The way he looked so… content. A muscle in her jaw jumped.

She knew she should be happy. She knew she should be over it. But the sight of him, happy without her, was a physical blow. She abruptly stood and walked away, her back rigid, her pace quickening.

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