angry - Story 5308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The celebratory lunch was going on, the voices like needles in his ears. He forced a smile, offering platitudes, while inside, something was eating at him. He knew, he *knew*, the new hire was making more. He excused himself, citing a sudden headache.

He escaped to the bathroom, splashing cold water on his face. The reflection in the mirror showed a face taut with tension. He ran his hands through his hair.

He took a few deep breaths, trying to find composure. When he returned to the lunch, he found the conversation irritating. He finally just slipped away.

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