angry - Story 5285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Accept or ignore?" The question, staring up from the screen, felt like a personal affront. Laura's hands were clenched. Richard Bennett. He had made her childhood hell. She wanted to scream.

She was surprised how much the sight of his name had affected her. Her stomach twisted, and her breath hitched. The request was a wound reopening. She hated him. She still did.

The urge to block him, to erase him from her digital world, was overwhelming. The idea of him seeing her life, the life she had worked so hard to build, felt… wrong. She had to fight this, to control this.

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