angry - Story 5180 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the silence in the car was crushing. John was driving, silent. Across from him, David, his “corporate lawyer” friend, stared out the window. John couldn't meet his eyes, the lies, the sheer audacity, was suffocating. David was, in fact, a clerk at the courthouse.

John gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were white. The highway blurred, the cars around them a symphony of meaningless motion. He felt a sudden, almost violent urge to swerve, to stop, to say something, anything. His teeth grated together.

The car felt like a cage, and the air inside felt thick and heavy.

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