angry - Story 5540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a punch. Sarah felt the blood drain from her face. She sat in the campus cafe, staring blankly at her untouched coffee. Her hands trembled so much, she had to grip the table to stop them. The casual chatter of other students grated on her nerves. Every sound felt magnified, irritating. She wanted to be left alone, to disappear, to scream at the top of her lungs at the unfairness.

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