angry - Story 5537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s words echoed in Kai’s mind. A mistake. A simple, devastating mistake. He marched back to his apartment, each footfall a heavy thud on the pavement. He couldn’t breathe properly; it felt as if his chest had been constricted. When he reached his door, he kicked it open, the wood splintering slightly. He didn’t care. His carefully constructed plans, aspirations, and hopes… all shattered into a million pieces.

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