angry - Story 5549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat of disbelief. Amy stared at the screen, the proof of her daughter, Grace's, secret life. A flush crept up her neck, and she felt a tightness in her throat.

She slammed the laptop shut with a loud snap, the sound echoing in the room. She wanted to scream, to lash out. She wanted to erase it all.

She walked into the garden and began to pull weeds from the flowerbeds, her movements jerky and aggressive. Each yank was a small act of defiance. Each weed ripped from the soil was a small victory.

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