angry - Story 5430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He reread the invitation, the paper growing damp in his sweaty palm. A wave of heat washed over him. High school. The memories, unwanted and unwelcome, clawed their way to the surface.

He threw the invitation across the room, the paper hitting the wall and sliding to the floor. His hands shook as he paced the room. The people. The faces. The things they had said, and done, still echoed in his mind.

He wanted to obliterate it all. The past. The present. The future, too. He wanted to escape, to disappear. The injustice of it all, of being forced to remember, filled him with a restless, chaotic energy. He kicked a chair, the sound a muffled explosion in the otherwise silent room.

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