angry - Story 5298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was cancelled. A simple sentence, but it triggered a cascade of volatile emotions within Leo. He balled his fists, the muscles in his arms tensing. He'd spent weeks organizing, anticipating, and now, it was gone. He felt the familiar heat rising in his neck and cheeks. He paced the length of his living room, his steps quick and agitated, a caged animal seeking escape. He wished he could just scream.

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