angry - Story 5378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The renovation was taking forever. His contractor, always late, always making excuses. The endless delays, the escalating costs. He was simmering with a barely contained rage. The construction dust seemed to clog his lungs. The air was thick with the scent of fresh paint and unfulfilled promises.

He glared at the unfinished wall. He needed a way to release the tension, to relieve the pressure that was building. He kicked a stack of lumber that was in the hallway.

He noticed a seam, in the plaster. A faint line, barely visible.

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