angry - Story 5498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call ended, and the receiver clattered back onto the cradle. The inventor, a woman named Clara, slammed her fist on the tabletop, making the glass water pitcher jump slightly. The patent had been denied. Someone else had claimed her design. A burning sensation erupted in her chest. She had put everything into this, every waking thought, every cent. Now she would lose it all. She ripped the patent papers into tiny pieces, letting them fall like confetti.

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