angry - Story 5263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection hung in the air, a physical weight on Sarah’s shoulders. The coach's pronouncements, delivered with rehearsed sympathy, felt like a deliberate blow. She gripped the railing of the bleachers so hard her knuckles ached. Every person around her, with their smiles and handshakes, just irritated her further.

Her teeth ground together. The meticulously planned season, the sacrifices, the hours of training – all for naught. The carefully cultivated image she had projected to the world of her being a star athlete dissolved.

She watched the other girls celebrate. She wanted to yell, to tell them they didn't understand. She took a deep breath, and then another. Her throat closed. She turned, leaving behind the jubilant cheers and the oppressive feeling of betrayal.

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