angry - Story 5489 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

They’d offered her money. Enough to make her comfortable. But it wasn't about the money. It was about the memories. She sat in her car, parked across the street, watching the men in the hard hats. Her hands were shaking so badly, she could barely hold her phone.

She wanted to call someone, anyone, to share the awful, suffocating weight that was pressing down upon her.

The first section of the roof began to collapse. She buried her face in her hands.

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