angry - Story 5600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city blurred past him, a wash of color and noise, as he drove. He’d usually find solace in the rhythm of the road, the hum of the engine, the feeling of freedom. But tonight, every street seemed a taunt, every flashing light a judgment. He gripped the steering wheel so tight his knuckles were white. He flipped the radio off, the silence amplifying the thrumming in his ears, a relentless, internal drumbeat.

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