angry - Story 5442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d found it, the little leather-bound book, lying open on his bed. David wanted to crush something. A brick, a table, anything. He marched into the dorm room, his gait stiff, his shoulders squared.

“Where were you last night, Mark?” he asked, his voice tight.

Mark, lounging on his bed, looked up, feigning confusion. “Nowhere. Why?”

David’s hand balled into a fist. He took a deliberate breath. “Don’t play dumb. I know you read my journal.” He hated the tremor in his voice, the way his knuckles were white.

Mark shrugged, unconcerned. The casual dismissal sent a fresh wave of heat through David’s chest.

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