angry - Story 5372 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran his fingers along the dusty, ornate molding, a tremor in his hand barely detectable. The sheer *audacity* of it. His ex-wife, already wealthy, now flaunting this new property. The walls seemed to close in, the air thick with a suffocating, almost tangible resentment. He needed to find something to dismantle, something to rip apart.

He’d insisted on a thorough inspection, of course, but the professionals, paid off, missed everything. He scoffed, the sound sharp and brittle in the otherwise silent room.

A slight draft, near the fireplace. He knelt, tracing the stone with a calloused finger. The mortar was cracked, and… a gap. It wasn't natural.

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