angry - Story 5484 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The taste of coffee soured in David's mouth. The city planner had given a curt explanation, a callous indifference to the memories that filled every room. Now, a massive crane was swinging into position, a metal predator ready to strike. David's stomach churned. He hadn't slept in two days.

He remembered the feel of the rough wood of the porch swing, the scent of his mother’s baking that would fill the air. He wanted to scream.

He kicked at a loose stone on the driveway, sending it skittering across the cracked pavement. This wasn't right.

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