angry - Story 5327 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The critic's comments felt like a personal attack. Chef Ricardo had poured his heart and soul into his restaurant, and now this… this annihilation. He leaned against the counter, his knees suddenly weak. He wanted to shout, to rail against the injustice of it all.

He ripped a handful of herbs from a nearby planter, shredding them between his fingers. The fragrant leaves released their scent, but the aroma brought no comfort. His breath hitched in his throat.

He threw the shredded herbs onto the floor, the scattered pieces a visual representation of his ruined aspirations. He turned away from the kitchen and began to pace.

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