angry - Story 5216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the photograph, the image of them both smiling at a carnival. Sarah’s depiction of the day was upbeat. He could still taste the bitter disappointment, the way the day had ended. Her memories were a cheerful fantasy, a sugar-coated version of what had occurred.

He tossed the picture onto the coffee table, the cardboard frame rattling against the wood. The room felt constricted. She hadn't seen the truth, or she had chosen to ignore it.

He needed to break something.

He slammed his fist on the table, the impact making the mugs rattle.

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