angry - Story 5319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the open Arabic textbook, the strange script a mocking taunt. He felt a deep, hollow emptiness in his chest. His partner, Sarah, was secretly learning his language. He felt a profound sense of… being *wronged*.

He closed the book slowly, deliberately, the gesture somehow unsatisfying. He needed to *do* something. He needed to *say* something. But the words seemed to have deserted him.

He slammed his fist on the table, the force of the blow surprising him. The sound echoed in the silent room. He stood up, his legs feeling unsteady. He walked outside, needing to get 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