angry - Story 5318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight of the Mandarin practice sheets on the kitchen counter sent a jolt of ice through him. He’d been looking forward to cooking dinner. Now, the thought of food made him feel sick. This… this… this deception. It simmered within him, a slow burn.

He shoved the sheets aside, the paper rustling harshly. He picked up a knife and began chopping vegetables with unnecessary force, the blade thudding against the wooden cutting board. He wanted to scream. He wanted to shatter something. He wanted to feel something other than this… this hollow ache.

He heard the front door open, the sound jolting him. He gripped the knife tighter, his knuckles white.

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