angry - Story 5220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the book felt heavy in her lap. James’ account of their favorite book was a misrepresentation, a complete distortion of what she held dear. Her throat tightened. His interpretation, a superficial reading, diminished the profound impact it had on her.

She slammed the book shut. The sound was sharp in the quiet room. Her hands trembled. He just didn't get it.

She stood up and paced, her mind a whirlwind of conflicting emotions. Her cheeks burned. She looked at the book, and then at the window.

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