angry - Story 5218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant was too loud, too bright. Her stomach twisted as she listened to David recount the ski trip. He remembered the glorious sunshine, the perfect snow. She remembered the near-disaster, the fear that had gripped her. His version was a slap in the face.

She stabbed at her food, pushing the pasta around her plate. The clinking of cutlery, the chatter of other diners, grated on her nerves. The memory was a wound, constantly reopened by his casual dismissal of it.

She felt a tremor in her hands.

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