angry - Story 5349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't bother greeting the man. The man was selling the bear. His bear. The one he’d buried in the backyard with the time capsule. Now, it was here. He could feel heat creeping up his neck. He wanted to shout. He wanted to smash something.

"How much for the teddy bear?" he growled.

"Five bucks." The man shrugged, not even looking up.

He shoved the money at the man, his hand trembling slightly. He wanted to rip the bear to shreds, to destroy it and the memories it evoked. He turned and walked away, the bear a heavy weight in his grasp. His shoulders were stiff, his jaw tight.

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