angry - Story 5596 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Thank you for your submission…” The email’s opening statement felt like a personal affront. He deleted it immediately, the cursor blinking mockingly on the blank screen. He felt a burning sensation in his chest, a tight knot that wouldn’t unravel. He spun his chair around, away from his desk, the movement almost violent. He focused on the distant cityscape visible through his window, but the view offered no solace, only a feeling of being utterly, hopelessly alone.

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