angry - Story 5532 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the acceptance letter, the golden seal a taunt. This should have been his ticket out. Elias slammed the letter onto his desk, scattering papers. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture rough, almost violent. The scholarship, the only thing keeping him afloat, gone. He felt a fire in his chest, a roaring inferno he struggled to contain. His jaw clenched, and the muscles in his neck stood out in stark relief. He considered tearing up the letter.

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