angry - Story 5667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small space felt as if it was shrinking. The woman with him was humming a tune, a cheerful, annoying melody. He wanted her to stop. He wanted everything to stop. He wanted out.

He checked his watch for the tenth time in as many minutes, each glance a fresh surge of discontent. Each tick a condemnation. He dug his nails into his palms, the pressure a small comfort.

“Well, aren’t you a happy camper,” he said, the words dripping with sarcasm. He turned his face away from her. He was certain that if he looked at her he'd say or do something he’d regret. He swallowed hard.

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