angry - Story 5360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt suffocating. The heat was oppressive, and the air was thick with dust. He felt the muscles in his shoulders tighten as he surveyed the mess left behind by the previous residents. It was appalling.

He grabbed a chipped ceramic vase, examining it with a detached curiosity. The previous owners and their negligence. He tossed it against the far wall. The shattering sound provided a small amount of release.

“I won’t do this," he whispered, feeling his body begin to shake. The feeling of being taken advantage of was overwhelming. He wished they could feel this.

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