angry - Story 5671 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email landed with a thud in Maya's inbox, the subject line a stark announcement: "Dr. Chen's Departure." She felt her jaw clench, a muscle spasming near her left ear. She swiveled away from her computer, the whir of the fan suddenly grating on her nerves. The fluorescent lights in her tiny office seemed to pulse, a maddening strobe. She wanted to scream, to smash something.

The coffee cup on her desk, half-full and cold, beckoned. She grabbed it, hurled it into the metal wastebasket with surprising force. The ceramic shattered into a satisfyingly loud explosion.

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