angry - Story 5356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Damn it!” Claire shouted, her voice echoing in the stale air. She had expected to discover treasures, not this. Mountains of unwanted possessions. Her back ached, her fingers were filthy, and her patience had completely evaporated.

She ripped open a plastic container, scattering its contents across the dusty floor. A collection of broken Christmas ornaments. She wanted to smash them to pieces, to obliterate any trace of the careless people who had abandoned them.

Her chest felt tight, constricted. She wanted to scream, to cry, to just… disappear. This wasn’t fair.

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