angry - Story 5429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at the invitation, her eyes narrowed. The bright, cheerful design seemed to scream at her. The past was supposed to stay in the past. Why wouldn't it?

She snatched the paper, her fingers crumpling it in a tight grip. The image of the school’s sprawling facade felt like a taunt. Her breathing grew shallow, and rapid. A knot formed in her stomach.

She wanted to run. She wanted to hide. The thought of facing those people, after all these years, filled her with a deep, consuming agitation. She slammed the invitation onto the counter, the sound sharp and definitive.

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