angry - Story 5323 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tossed the magazine onto the already-teetering stack of unopened mail. "A disgrace," the review had declared. "A culinary travesty." Chef Jean-Luc felt a cold wave wash over him, leaving him shivering despite the warmth of the kitchen. He could feel his hands trembling, and he clenched them into fists, nails digging into his palms.

He smashed a plate against the counter, the sound echoing through the empty dining room. The shattered pieces scattered across the tiles, mirroring the fragments of his shattered ego. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something else. He wanted to… disappear.

His assistant, Marie, tentatively entered, her eyes wide with apprehension. "Chef?" she asked softly.

Jean-Luc whipped around, his face contorted. "Get out," he spat, his voice a low growl. "And leave me alone."

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