angry - Story 5206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Sir, there must be some mistake,” David said, his voice strained. The impound lot attendant, a bored teenager with a pierced eyebrow, just shrugged. David's chest felt like it was about to burst.

The air in the office was thick with the smell of exhaust and cheap coffee. Each word from the attendant was like a fresh jab. He needed his car. He had appointments to keep, obligations.

He slammed his hands on the counter. The metal clanged. His teeth were clenched so tight, he was sure he'd cracked a molar. He needed his car back now.

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