angry - Story 5185 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the apartment was deafening, punctuated only by the frantic drumming of her own pulse in her ears. She'd found a text message – “Thinking of you xoxo” – and a string of emojis. The simple words cut through her like a shard of glass. She slammed her hand against the wall, leaving a dent in the plaster. A wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped the edge of the kitchen counter, trying to steady herself. The world spun.

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