angry - Story 5605 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph burned in her hand. Emily ripped it into shreds. Her grandfather, the quiet, gentle man, the man who “never raised his voice,” was captured in a heated argument with a woman, his face contorted in a way she'd never witnessed. This was not the man she thought she knew. This was not the man she loved.

The truth was a bitter pill to swallow. The walls of her childhood, reinforced with stories of unwavering love, suddenly felt brittle.

She wanted to tear apart the carefully curated picture her mother always painted, one that had been placed on her pedestal for her since she was a little girl.

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