angry - Story 5427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation felt flimsy, insignificant. Yet, it landed with a thud in his gut. He tossed it onto the workbench, the paper landing on a pile of sawdust, forgotten, insignificant. He didn't want to think about it.

His hands, calloused and strong from years of physical labor, clenched into fists. He slammed a wrench down on the table with a resounding crash. The room felt small, the air thick with the scent of oil and metal.

He hated the thought of seeing them. Seeing *her*. The way she had looked at him. He wanted to break something. Anything. It wasn't fair.

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