angry - Story 5567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the plates was unusually loud as Ben began clearing the table. He felt a surge of cold wash over him, a physical reaction to the news he had just received. His friend, Alex, was having a party. On *his* birthday.

He stacked the plates with unnecessary force, each action a silent testament to his displeasure. The thought of Alex’s party, of the potential overlap in guests, of the overshadowing effect, made him want to explode.

He slammed the plates into the sink, the noise echoing in the quiet dining room. He needed to get away, to be alone. He felt a heavy weight pressing down on his chest, a feeling of betrayal and disappointment.

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