angry - Story 5650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, the words blurring before his eyes. It was a well-crafted announcement, filled with optimistic promises, but the subtext was clear. He was expendable.

He leaned back in his chair, his body rigid. The blood was pumping in his ears. He gripped the edge of the desk, his knuckles white. The air conditioning was on full blast, but he felt a rising heat, a burning sensation in his chest.

He didn't want to think about the severance package, the job hunt, the uncertainty. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something.

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