angry - Story 5204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop barista gave her a wide-eyed look. "I'm so sorry, ma'am," she said, her voice laced with concern. But Amelia couldn’t process the words. She kept replaying the conversation in her head, the tow truck company’s cold indifference.

She crumpled the receipt in her hand, the paper tearing under her grip. Her nails bit into her palms. Her palms were sweating. The injustice of it all burned. Her car, her only mode of transport, gone.

She wanted to scream. She wanted to smash something. She wanted to hurt someone. Her shoulders were tense, the muscles in her neck aching. She swallowed hard, struggling to keep her face neutral.

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