angry - Story 5373 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wallpaper felt like it was mocking her. The floral pattern, the perfectly symmetrical design, the whole house…it was all so *perfect*, and she loathed it. Her new husband, so proud of his purchase, hadn't even let her voice an opinion. A simmering frustration built within her, tightening her chest, and making her jaw clench. She felt the urge to scream.

She started pushing on the bookshelves in the study, trying to dislodge them. Why did everything feel so *ordered*?

One of them shifted unexpectedly. A section of the wall groaned inwards, revealing darkness.

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