angry - Story 5594 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car keys felt heavy in his palm, cold and useless. He'd been looking forward to this drive, the wind in his hair, the music blasting, a release after months of meticulous work. Now, the highway seemed a treacherous, endless expanse. He yanked the door open with more force than necessary, the metal groaning in protest. He slammed the door shut, the sound echoing in the deserted parking lot. The sun beat down, and he realized he’d forgotten his sunglasses.

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