angry - Story 5664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed his briefcase onto the floor with a resounding thump. The sound was swallowed by the metal box, but the gesture spoke volumes. He needed to be *somewhere*. He needed to *do* something. He was a man of action, a person who hated the thought of being still.

He watched her, a woman he knew in passing, tapping her foot, and it only added to his irritation. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break things. He wanted to fix this goddamn elevator.

“Do you think they *know* we’re in here?” he asked, his voice a low growl. His jaw clenched, muscles working hard. He wanted to get out. He wanted out now. This was a direct affront to his sense of self.

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