angry - Story 5474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang. He already knew what it was before he even got to the door. He paused, his gut twisting into a knot. He glanced through the peephole: a delivery driver, holding a box. He almost didn't answer it.

He opened the door a crack. “Yes?” he snapped, his voice tight.

"Package for… Mr. Kevin Thompson?" the driver asked, squinting slightly. He didn't even *know* a Kevin Thompson. He snatched the package from the driver's hand, barely managing a mumbled, “Thanks.”

He slammed the door, the sound echoing through the hallway. He ripped the package apart. Inside was a framed photo of a man he’d never seen before, a smug smile plastered across his face. He felt his jaw clench. He hurled the photo across the room, where it shattered against the wall.

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