angry - Story 5340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a forwarded email, a chain of messages that made the announcement feel like a collective rejection. Eleanor felt a chill run down her spine, followed by a burning sensation in her chest.

She leaned back in her chair, the sudden news making her world feel unsteady. Her breath hitched. She felt her nails digging into her palms.

She quickly clicked the email off, shutting down her computer and pushing the chair back from the desk with a jolt. She paced the confines of her office, wanting to escape this awful feeling.

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