angry - Story 5543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to constrict around her. Maria stared at the phone, at the evidence. Her daughter, Chloe, was not who she thought she was. The carefully cultivated image of a sweet, shy girl was a facade. Maria’s breath hitched in her chest.

She went to the sink and splashed cold water on her face. The sting offered a fleeting moment of clarity. She needed to breathe. She moved to her daughter's room, her legs heavy.

She stared at the perfectly made bed, the posters of her favorite band, and the overflowing bookshelf. The room seemed different, alien. She didn't know this girl anymore. She slammed the door shut, and leaned against it, trembling.

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