angry - Story 5528 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt thick, suffocating. Sarah gripped the offending novel, her knuckles white. She had spent countless hours in this very library, lost in the author’s world, only to discover it was built on borrowed materials. The realization struck her with a force that stole the air from her lungs.

She imagined confronting the author in person. What would she say? The thought of uttering even a single word to him filled her with a simmering need to explode. Instead, she quietly returned the book to its shelf, the act a small rebellion against the man whose work had betrayed her.

She left, slamming the library door 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