angry - Story 5398 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter, tucked inside a dog-eared copy of *Hamlet*, detailed a series of broken promises. He felt his hands begin to tremble. He balled up the letter in his fist, crushing the delicate paper. A low growl rumbled in his chest.

He stormed around the room, picking up objects and putting them down with unnecessary force. The world around him seemed blurry. The blood in his ears roared. The air was thick and hard to breathe. He wanted to scream, to break something.

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