angry - Story 5387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The floral arrangement on the kitchen counter felt like a mocking gesture. He had bought it for Sarah, a gesture of affection. He was sure. Then he had looked on the countertop and saw an identical bouquet. He spun around, the blood roaring in his ears.

He clenched his fists, nails digging into his palms. He wanted to rip the flowers to shreds. The vibrant colors, the sweet scent, now symbols of deception.

He needed air, a walk, anything to escape the confines of the room. He walked out the door and started walking, not knowing where he was going.

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