angry - Story 5334 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sign, freshly painted, announced the closure. John stared at it, his shoulders stiffening, his jaw tight. The familiar scent of grilling burgers, which usually evoked such comfort, now just made his stomach churn.

He wanted to tear the sign down, rip it to shreds, obliterate it from existence. He clenched his fists, feeling the tendons in his forearms strain. His breath came in ragged gasps.

He considered going inside, confronting the owner, demanding an explanation. But what good would it do? He turned his back on the restaurant, the weight of the news pressing down on him.

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