angry - Story 5348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a strange energy. She hated yard sales. They brought back too many memories. Then she saw him. Her bear. The one her grandmother had sewn for her. She felt a surge, a sudden tightness in her chest, a stinging behind her eyes. A rush of thoughts raced through her head. She had to get it.

She approached the table, ignoring the other shoppers. The woman running the sale was old and frail. "He's just three dollars!" she squeaked.

She handed over the money, not bothering with pleasantries. She didn't look at the woman's face. She didn't say a word. She grabbed the bear and walked away, the ground seeming to tilt beneath her feet.

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