angry - Story 5249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting room was a blur of faces, but one thing was crystal clear to Olivia: utter incompetence. Her medical records? Switched with someone else’s. She could feel a bitter taste rising in her throat. Her blood pounded in her temples.

She rose from her seat, knocking it over with a loud crash. The sound brought startled glances, but she didn’t care. The audacity of it! The disregard for her health!

She needed to get out, to breathe. The air in the room had become too dense, too oppressive.

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