angry - Story 5629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery left Ben feeling a profound sense of unease. Ms. Davis, his math teacher, had decided to follow him. He clenched his jaw, a tight, involuntary movement. It was not welcome.

He immediately started deleting posts, cringing with each click. He deleted the ones about his struggles with calculus, the ones about his boredom with the subject. He felt exposed, naked.

In math class the next day, his normally quick mind felt sluggish. He stumbled over simple equations. He could feel her gaze on him, a silent, disapproving judgment. His face felt hot, and he was desperately trying to stay calm.

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