angry - Story 5414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Look what I found, Dad!" Ten-year-old Leo held up the wallet, his eyes wide. David, however, felt a different sensation bloom in his chest. His business had failed. He was buried in debt, and his wife, Sarah, was threatening to leave.

He felt the muscles in his jaw tighten as he approached his son. The wallet, bulging with cash, was a cruel joke. He picked it up, feeling the weight in his hand, a tangible representation of everything he was missing.

He looked at his son’s hopeful face. He felt a wave of… resentment? He shoved the wallet in his pocket. "Let's go home," he muttered, his voice gravelly, as he turned away.

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