angry - Story 5479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

*Another* one. He saw the box the moment he walked out of the apartment building. The name on the package read "David Lee." He clenched his fists, his fingers digging into his palms. He really didn't need this right now.

He felt a sudden surge of heat rise up his neck. He ignored the package, continued walking. He would get it later.

Later, he found it untouched. He kicked it into the corner of the apartment, and the anger returned, stronger than before. He felt a throbbing sensation behind his eyes. He sat down heavily in his armchair, a cold sweat breaking out on his forehead.

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