angry - Story 5486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Don’t you dare!” Maya’s voice cracked as she faced the foreman. He just shrugged, indifferent, as if this was just another Tuesday. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a heat that spread through her limbs.

She wanted to smash the camera that some young man was using to document the impending tragedy. She needed to do something, anything.

The foreman gave a dismissive wave. The first blow of the wrecking ball connected with the roof, and Maya felt a sob clawing its way up her throat.

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