angry - Story 5481 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The demolition crew's yellow excavator loomed, a metal beast poised to devour the house. Sarah clenched her jaw, her knuckles white as she gripped the steering wheel. She’d driven all night to get here, to stand in front of the place where she’d skinned her knees and dreamt impossible dreams, before some wrecking ball took it all away.

She slammed the car door, the sound echoing in the pre-dawn quiet. The air itself seemed thick, oppressive. Each breath hitched in her chest.

"Just get it over with," she muttered under her breath, watching a man in a hard hat casually point at the roof. The nerve of him.

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