angry - Story 5487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived a month ago, a cold, clinical pronouncement. Now, here he was, watching the backhoe chew away at the garden. He could almost feel the vibrations in his teeth. His father’s rose bushes, gone. His mother's prized tomatoes, reduced to mulch. He leaned against his car, the world tilted.

He'd spent his whole life there.

He jammed his hands into his pockets, digging his nails into his palms, as if to anchor himself to the earth.

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