angry - Story 5556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared out the rain-streaked window, his jaw muscles working. The rain, a relentless drumming against the glass, seemed to mirror the frantic beat of his heart. She had ignored him. Again. A parrot, a loud and messy bird? It was a terrible idea.

He ran a hand through his already messy hair, leaving it standing on end. He wanted to shout, to make her understand the practicalities, the costs, the noise. But he knew it would be a waste of breath.

The silence in the apartment felt oppressive. He felt a desperate need to escape, to be anywhere else.

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