angry - Story 5523 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop felt stifling, the clatter of cups and the murmur of conversations grating on Amelia's nerves. She stared at the article on her phone, the damning evidence of her idol’s literary crimes laid bare. A familiar buzzing began behind her eyes, the prelude to a headache.

She pushed her untouched latte away, the sweetness suddenly cloying. Each sentence in the article, with its comparisons and citations, felt like a personal insult. She wanted to scream, to lash out, but instead, she focused on breathing deeply, willing the storm inside her to subside.

She got up and left, not even bothering to pay for her drink, the doors slamming shut behind her.

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