angry - Story 5618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive there had been an exercise in control. He had to keep his foot from stomping the gas pedal, had to keep from turning around. He hated everything about the situation.

He kept his head down, avoiding eye contact as he sat through the interminable introductions. The whole thing was a waste of his time, a deliberate act of emotional manipulation.

He stood, reluctantly approaching the stage. His vision felt tunnelled, his focus narrowly fixed on the microphone. He opened his mouth, and the words came out like stones, heavy and cold.

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