angry - Story 5410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the keys in Clara’s hand felt crushing. She stared at the tarnished brass, the metal reflecting her own grimace. Her brother, Mark, was already inside, talking on the phone. Business. Of course. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach.

She jammed the key into the lock, twisting it with excessive force. The lock clicked open. She shoved the door inwards.

Mark called out from the living room. "Clara, could you come in here? I've got a great idea." She didn't respond. She just wanted to leave.

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