angry - Story 5550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden, blinding heat spread through his body. Richard stood frozen, staring at the evidence of his son, Sam's, secret online world. He felt like the ground had shifted beneath his feet. He began to sweat.

He slammed his fist on the table, the impact making the glasses on the shelf rattle. He couldn't speak, he couldn't think. He needed to be away from it.

He grabbed his keys and jacket. He needed air, to escape the suffocating feeling. He stormed out of the house, the door slamming shut behind him, the sound of finality echoing in the still air.

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