angry - Story 5337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a punch to the gut. Michael stumbled back from the counter, his hand flying to his chest. The barista’s casual tone seemed utterly insensitive. He hadn't even had his coffee yet.

He fumbled with his wallet, not paying attention to the transaction. His vision blurred as he stormed out into the bustling city street. He wanted to shout, scream, let the world know how wrong this all was.

He shoved his hands into his pockets and walked faster, ignoring the other pedestrians. The rhythm of his footsteps was the only thing grounding him, each step a testament to his mounting frustration.

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