angry - Story 5446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed his headphones, jamming them into his ears, the music turned up to a deafening volume. It wasn't about the music; it was about the noise, the barrier it created. He felt a tidal wave of something rising inside him, threatening to break.

He marched down the hall and slammed into his roommate, Ben. Ben looked up from his video game, surprised.

“What the hell, man?” Ben asked.

“My journal, Ben. Was it you?” He didn't wait for a response. He stormed back into the dorm.

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