angry - Story 5648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news was announced during the all-hands meeting. She stared at the CEO's placid face, the practiced smile feeling utterly foreign. Her own face felt frozen, her muscles stiff.

A cold numbness crept through her limbs. She kept her posture straight as a ramrod. She didn't want to break, to appear weak.

As the meeting ended, she pushed her way through the throng of departing employees, her movements stiff. She ignored the attempts to make small talk, and walked quickly to her desk, and closed the door.

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