angry - Story 5407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The floral wallpaper seemed to mock Henry. It felt childish, stifling. He ran a hand over the rough surface, the paper flaking under his touch. His sister, Chloe, prattled on about renovations and modernizing. He could barely stand it.

He wanted to scream at her. How could she be so unconcerned? Their grandmother had lived here for seventy years. It was more than a house. It was a life, a history. He had to keep himself from slamming his fist against the wall.

“We could put in a new kitchen…” Chloe began, her voice brimming with enthusiasm. He just wanted to leave, but he was trapped here.

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