angry - Story 5305 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ascended slowly, each floor a fresh wave of resentment washing over him. He’d seen the paystub. Michael, fresh from a different field altogether, earned more. The buttons on his shirt felt too tight. He felt a flush creep up his neck.

He felt the metallic tang of rage in his mouth. He clenched his jaw, willing himself to remain calm.

When the elevator doors opened, he stalked past the receptionist, his stride unusually long and fast. He went straight to the coffee machine, poured a cup, and practically threw it at the trash bin, narrowly missing. He just wanted to go home.

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