angry - Story 5262 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stalked away from the tryouts, the humid air of the field a suffocating presence. The words of the coach echoed in his mind, a relentless drumbeat: “We’re going with a different strategy this year, Liam.” His jaw clenched. Different strategy? He had poured his heart and soul into this, into the sprints, the drills, the grueling hours of practice.

He ripped his jersey off, the fabric tearing slightly at the seam. He crumpled it into a ball, his vision blurring. He threw it into the nearest garbage bin with a force that sent the metal clanging. His chest felt constricted. His hands trembled as he walked back towards the parking lot.

The sun beat down on him, and he had to clench his fists against the urge to collapse. It had felt like the world was crumbling around him.

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