angry - Story 5368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was tucked into the mailbox amongst the bills and junk mail. He grabbed it and opened it, a generic message wishing him a happy birthday. A knot tightened in his stomach, and a wave of heat flushed over his skin. He felt a primal urge to destroy, to dismantle.

He slammed the card on the kitchen table. He grabbed a cup and threw it against the wall, the ceramic shattering into a million pieces. He stood there, breathing heavily, the remnants of the cup scattered at his feet. He could still feel the burn of frustration.

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